THE POSTAL SERVICE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13097, 9 February 1906, Page 6

THE POSTAL SERVICE.

PRESENTATION TO MR. W. GRAY.

[BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION'.]

Wellington , Thursday. Mb. Wm. Gray, secretary to the Postal Department, who attends the Postal Conference at Rome, lias been presented by the postal and telegraph staff with a handsome travelling bag and travelling rug, with silver-mounted accessories. Mr. Gray, in returning thanks, said to the loyalty and efficiency of the service itself, was due the good opinion the public had of it. Good administration, he admitted, was a necessity to a contented and effectual service, and in his coadjutors, Messrs. Logan and Rose, he believed the Department had found it; but perhaps the chief impetus, at least of late years, to the high position the Department had reached was the fact of the present PostmasterGeneral holding the position he —acquainted as ho was with the Department's working from top to bottom, and enthusiastic in his administration as he had always shown himself, Mr. Gray referred to the clarification of the service as an important factor in the adjustment of individual grievances, and hoped soon after* his return to hear of classification of the Public Service at large. Mr. B. M. Wilson, private secretary to Sir Joseph Ward, who is leaving" hr Europe with his chief on Saturday,, was entertained by his " fellow private secretaries, and presented with an appropriate souvenir as, a mark of their appreciation of his many good qualities.