CIVIL SERVANTS

New Zealand Herald, Volume 80, Issue 24690, 16 September 1943, Page 4

CIVIL SERVANTS

TRIBUTE TO WORK PRIME MINISTER'S EULOGY A tribute to the civil servants was paid by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. P. Eraser, in his address at the Town Hall last night. He said that, as Prime Minister, Minister of Health and Minister of Education, he had had their fullest support from beginning to end.

"We have a public service that personally 1 am proud of," said Mr. Fraser. "In the Post and Telegraph, Railways and every other branch of Governmental life we have men and women giving their services and never refusing to give of their best. I want to make that as clear as possible. "There has never been any question of penalising them, except if there was defiance of the Government, as in one case where the Government was challenged and it had to dispense with a man's services.

"The public servant accepts_ the policy of whatever Government is _ in office and helps to put it into operation. Had it been otherwise, we as a Government could never have done our job."

Speaking at Beachhaven last week, Mrs. Mary Dreaver, Labour candidate for Waitemata, said: "There are people in Government departments who are not Labour and who are sabotaging our effort. They cannot always be civil to the public. When they are engaged, we know nothing of their politics, but we know them and are watching them. Where we find this, these people will find a job with some other employer."