DELAY AND INEFFICIENCY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 13 July 1917, Page 5

DELAY AND INEFFICIENCY.

(To. the Editor.) £siit,r~ls it nat about time our socalled Efficiency Board began to wake un> anfl. take some steps to see that those, members, o£ the reserves who axe milking were called and let know where they stands whether, passed by doctorcar not. As the. milking season starts; nest, moaqbh, and the worst time of the jwar is iragusi. and September, and if iahev have to get sharemiikers, then. tfitey on% get^ as a rule,, new hands, or rather unsatisfactory people, as all the best ase fixed: tvp this month. Captain I Walker gav<* the board a good lead, fbut- it seenas to- have no effect. It j seems to me thai it is nist the same ias «fyer.. If you want a thing done . wels you must pay for it, and I underj staled? the members of the board are not , pasi?. Tfee honor of being a member • does; not wear leaag. There is plenty forr ! thsew tot da to, see the best use is made!oi man power. They could make a* : start with the Government. Look at. i 1 tire branch railway to Manaia. See the* nten working on cuttings, etc., using the old1 and out-of-date hand cart, running earth to tip head, when a horse, and dray, or truck, could be used, and;. do about three times the work. Now that work is not going to add one single settler on the route, and even when, running to Manaia, it is by no mean* certain whether the motor lorries and. cars wilt not beat the l^ailway. But jik any case it is not urgent, and could' stand over till after the war, when itwould come in handy to tide men over for a bit till things settled down, and. would allow the present staff to be used for more important things—buildingscold storage, etc. Another thing, pottering along, as is being done, is no> good. It is reported that it takes rather more bosses than men at pr<v~ - sent, rind that is waste again. If w& are going to keep up our present rein—forcements long, there will have to bea bie change in our methods if we do*not mean to decrease our output oF" produce a lot. If we are not able to». sell stuff, how arc our heavy taxes tobe met? T7.T.W.. Manaia.