DISMISSALS
SINGLE MEN GO
NO GENERAL ORDER
The statement was being made in the ci.lv Iliiti morning that oil .single men in the Government Printing Oliicc liad been retrenched, and that a similar policy was being pursued by the Government in tho Civil Service generally. Tho Minister in Charge of the Government. Printing Office (the Hon. S. G. Smith) stated this aftqrnoon that the position in the printing office was that owing to slackness of work in. the bindery-room the services of ouly a few permanent married men were being retained. Single men'on tho permanent, staff, as -well, as both casual married men and single men, had' had to be put off.: In the machine-room work had fallen off considerably,'and the services of the casual staff had been dispensed with. . Mr. Smith said that the dismissals had not been made in pursuance of a general-""order, but had been carried out, at the discretion of the' superin-. ten dent. • Asked if general retrenchment was being carried out affecting single men in the service, the Prime Minister (the Eight Hon. G. W. Forbes) said.he knew nothing of such a proposal.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 92, 20 April 1931, Page 9
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188DISMISSALS Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 92, 20 April 1931, Page 9
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