POST AND TELEGRAPH RETIREMENTS

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21972, 22 December 1936, Page 15

POST AND TELEGRAPH RETIREMENTS

TO THE XOITOB OF THB PJtISS. Sir,—The reply that appeared in your columns of December 12 to my letter concerning the Posit and Telegraph Department retirements is most unsatisfactory and the Postmaster-General has placed himself in a position which will rapidly cause him to lose the respect and confidence of his employees, their friends, and at a later period, the general public. I can now prove to you that instructions as to secrecy were issued and are still, I understand, being observed by most officers. To maintain that there is nothing secretlive about the matter can be regarded las only a sidestep. ! You will agree that there is something unusual going on when the customary list of those concerned in the retirements has not been made available for publication in your paper. Another point I desire to stress is that no officer is indispensable, and {he statement that action was to be'taken to train suitable officers is mere eyewash, since the business of the department is carried on as efficiently by the next in charge on the occasion of death, when officers are absent on annual furlough, also when they are absent from the Dominion. We who await promotion now desire to have all the cards placed on the table, and the Postmas-ter-General would be well advised to make certain of his subject in future. —Yours, etc., PURIRI. December 16, 1936. IThe Postmaster-General, the Hon. F. Jones, to whom this letter was referred, had no comment to make.]