SUPERINTENDENT OF RESERVES.

Evening Star, Issue 16778, 5 July 1918, Page 8

SUPERINTENDENT OF RESERVES.

TO THE EDITOH. notice of the Wellington City Council that in a recent issue of your paper, a subleader appeared referring to the possibility of Dunedin inning the services of Mr I’annock, superintendent of reserves, in which the following statement is made : L't is an open secret that the civic authorities of Wellington have made a very tempting offer to Mi - D. Tannock, the superintendent of city reserves, to transfer his activities to Wellington. Cr Hancock, cfhairman of the Dunedin Reserves Committee, at a recent deputation to the council, is reported to have stated “that it was rather selfish, ho thought, on Wellington’s part to make a direct application in Dunedin for the only man that could moot that City’s needs.’’ It was further reported that “the Wellington Council had considerably augmented the amount of remuneration originally offered for the position (£4OO per annum).” It would appear from the above that an impression has gained ground in Dunedin that the Wellington City Corporation made a special and direct oiler to Mr Tannock, with the object of inducing him to leave your city and take service with them. This impression is absolutely an erroneous one. No direct application hr.s been made by anyone connected with the Wellington City Corporation to any man in the Dominion, nor ’has the remuneration offered by advertisement been augmented by a single pound. All that has been done by the Wellington City Council was to insert an advertisement (calling for application... for the position now vacant in Wellington)

in two of your City’s papers, on certain Ratos, and on the same dates, to place similar advertisements in two of the papers published in Auckland and Christchurch. I am directed by my council to .ask that, in fairness to them, you will bo rood enough to publish this denial. I would also point out that Mr Tan nock himself evidently recognises and deplores the and has written to me to that effect. So far as Mr Tannock la concerned, ho made an application stating his own terms, and subsequently withdrew his application.—l am, etc., Jno. R. Palmer, Town Clerk. Wellington, Jr]v 3.