POST OFFICE LEAVE

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 632, 8 October 1909, Page 8

POST OFFICE LEAVE

•«$ !)» J* St r> s . da * s Dominion it:'was stated that. postal officials, had nothing .to complain of in reference' to annual' holfdayv n- fe r; r? . °« nly W, ? n 4 ¥ same footing a,.other Civil Servants., That sounds all right, but I fail tp. see .how. you-can .place them on the same footing, for these reasons:: the Civil borynnts get too_many holidays: Take ■'Christ mas, they: we off. fo r about", tenidays; hen at Easter, from the Thursday -night till the Tilesthere, aro .a'.-great number ,ol other holidays. If you are going ! .to put tho postal meni on the same footing, you would mT l 0^ 6 t hem . ail these holidays, that at I present they don't get; a good thing for-.the I boys, but it .catft be done. Hon-..would-the post office look, inside if jt ■ was 'closed': from Christmas till after New'/YeSr?/ No, postal work cannot be put on the .shelf. -'■ ■'".:. Another thine, tho postal men are ordered on duty "hours of day or night, : whereas thj other Civil' Servants work from-nine till five, and he can live out of town,'asUhe trams and trams are running by the time he "goes to work. ■■ Seeing lhat the post office is paying well, I think it is a mistake to take away.from the.men tbe month's holiday '.which 'they are justly entitled to, and also deserve" after working in a close, confinement f6r twelve'months. f h £ whole, trouble., no: doubt,; lies with ' the Acting-Postmaster-General; as ;that • gentleman lias never had any' experience,'of p6s't''offic'e wcrk, and as he was only acting in tho chief's place, I think that he might have left things as .they were. . Howover, :this matter has not finished yet; in fact,.it has'not (started. Thanknig, you for valuable space,'but'as this is the first, timo I havo asked for a'.littlo space J Know you will fill tho am.'otc.,' ' ■.'■;;; :'..'.':' : ,'HARl)"HlT.;;