POST AND TELEGRAPH SERVICE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14039, 23 April 1920, Page 4

POST AND TELEGRAPH SERVICE.

(Per Press Association.) GREYMOCTH. _ April 22. A large and representative rii»f>tins of the Wf?t "Const section of th»" Post and Telejtraph Association to-night tiriiinimofwly curried thv following n'yoirttions: - special Eenerat meeting of the West Coast branch of the Pn><t and Telegraph Officers' As-wia-tiori records* it# emphatic prntmt against the delay in announcing the result of the- infjuiry held by the Chief -Frr-tiiv. Sir Robert, Stout. in December hist, re th«- war boiMW promised by Sir Jwph Ward in and urges the Association's Em-entire to demand a* the right of the service art minnunci'ment by the Prime Minister. (2). That thin meeting views with the cravst rißitrn <i»'i:ision of the Government to mwt the pressing economic burden by a (wniu. at th»* rate_ for married permanent officers of i'l-> per annum fltjtd per day): single officers t~ 10s (s*fd) - temporary officer:-.. married Is and single officers 6d per day: and strongly nrges the Association's Executive to demand as the imperative need of the service a substantial increase in the salary scale.