P. AND T. EMPLOYEES
ADDRESS BY MINISTER
QUESTION OF SALARIES
(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post") AUCKLAND, This Day. At the annual reunion of the Auckland Postmen's Welfare Club on Saturday night, the Hon. J. B. Donald, Post-master-General, said: "One receives many knocks as Postmastor-General, and they cause one to wonder whether the game is worth the candle. It is such functions as these that quieten such a feeling." The Minister said that Ke and the permanent heada of the Department had the interests of the employees .at heart, and would do their best for them. Beplying to an interjection asking when an increase in salary would be made, Mr. Donald said: "Nothing would please me better than to be able to frive it. I will not be favourable to a reduction in telephone charges until it comes about. I have been hauled over the coals by certain members of ParKament who consider that there should be a reduction in charges I will gl vo my reply when tho Estimates are betore the House. When the question of a rise in salaries comes up, I will do my best to obtain it." Several transfers would bo made, and he trusted that these would please tho staff. It was now possible for the officers of the Department to transfer to other Departments, and those who felt they could improve their prospects hv so doing could appl^, - V
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 85, 7 October 1929, Page 8
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