IN THEIR OWN TIME

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 33, 2 November 1917, Page 4

IN THEIR OWN TIME

/ T GOVERNMENT SERVANTS' GROCERIES. Tho following question asked in the House of Representatives and tho answer thereto relate to a "Wellington matter:— Mr. Okey asked the Minister of Do fence whether his attention has boon directed to statements in circulation in Wellington to the effect that in certain Government Departments, where groceries are purchased in wholesale Quan* tities for distribution on co-operative lines, tho sarao aro distributed to tne purchasers by Government servants . Government ordnance-vans during ordinary working hours? If tho ru ' u °"J* provo untrue, will lie oihcially Departmental officers from such unjust James Allen "piied: "Members of the Now Zealand Armjr Ordnance Corps established a canteen in King's Regulations, and purchased goods At wholesale priccs. Thesß RMda aro resold to members of tho Army Ordnance Corps at no loss _oi cost to tho Government. Two to tho corps aro grants ono dart leave without pay each fortnight, for the pur pose of dealing with the goodspurchaad and tho two men are the day's work out of tho canteen funds, furthor tho two men aro compelled to pull up their back work m tho which they receive no extia remuneration in the way of overtime, fhe goods are not sent to the i.,cu« l.ornes m Governnient vans, but a public carnci in town is engaged to deliver them, and tho cost of such delivery is defrayed out of cautecn l'unds,"