HOLIDAY DUTIES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22615, 31 December 1936, Page 8

HOLIDAY DUTIES

For a successful Christmas festival it is necessary that many people should render service to the public, a service that is unusually exacting and arduous and one that calls for the spirit which enables the individual to rise above a natural longing to share holiday leisure and recreation. The wide exercise of a high civic 'sense on the part of so many people calls for gratitude and even when unfavourable weather brings its discomforts and disappointments, there ought to be, and usually is, a kind thought for the servants of the public. Especial thanks are due to the post office and railway officials for the highly efficient and cheerful manner with which they have discharged their duties during the holiday rush. Both services have laboured under exceptional stress. Heavy demands have been made upon them and the staffs have displayed a loyally to their departments and to their fellowmen that transcends the purely material conception of earning one's bread. Throughout the postal service it has been the common aim to deliver with the utmost expedition the seasonal mail which gives so .much happiness and creates the spirit of good-fellowship among tlie people. The railways have carried a huge volume of special traffic with ft minimum of delay and their servants have brought to their task the human touch that smooths out a thousand worries that might become vexatious. To these and all who have rendered good service to the public this Christmastide sincere thanks arc due.