MR COATES AT DUNEDIN.
DEPUTATION REQUESTS. (feijs associatios telegram.) DUXEDLV, May L The Hon. J. G. Coates received several deputations this morning. In reply to a deputation from the Chamber of Commerce and the Ota go Expansion League, he said the new post and telegraph office would be started, if not before the end of the present calendar year, at least before the end of the financial year. Plans and specifications were now being prepared. There were alternative schemes, one to house the post and telegraph offices in a building costing £IOO,OOO, and the other to erect a building to house all the Government Departments. The Returned Soldiers' Association brought up the matter of "permanentcasuals" in the railway service. Mr Coates replied that if returned soldiers had been in employment for from iwo to five years, they need not worty about their jobs, but it was quire a, different matter as to whether he should place them on the permanentstaffs. That involved a math;? of policy.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18681, 3 May 1926, Page 1
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