LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 16, 14 October 1918, Page 6

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

EXEMPTION OF STATE EMPLOYEES

Sir,—Your note at the end of my letter in Friday's issue and the explanation given you by tho Department shows how shoddy the whole is/ The explanation is so glaringly an after-* thought and is an insult to the intelligence of your, readers. Tho man was preparing to movo his family to Feilding, and had it not -been for the Feilding Justices' protest he would hnvft been there now, and I am perfectly certain the Directors of Kecruiting would never have been advised of the change. Permit me also to refer to theexplanation of the Assistant Public Service Commissioner published by you earlier in the week. You and }<nir readers' were meant to believe that a resignation had taken place in the Feildiug Court recently, and the new , man to whom exception has been taken was appointed in the usual course of events. This is absolutely contrary to. facts, which are as follow: In January; 1917, the then Clerk of Court at Feilding, who was ineligible for military, service, was transferred to Wanganui to take the place of the clerk there, who had been ordered into. camp. The Feilding man resigned from the Justice Department toward the end of 1917. —I am, etc., EX-CIVIL SERVANT October 11.