THE NATIONAL EFFICIENCY BOARD.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16963, 27 March 1917, Page 6

THE NATIONAL EFFICIENCY BOARD.

to Tin: rcnrrcm. • SlE V~i? ofe "" in 5 *° my remarks at a mooting of the New Zealand National As<=ocia tion at Mosgiel on Thursday night in criticism of an appointment mad" to the secretarial staff of the National Efficiency Board, and concerning which a parao-ranh appeared m your local column of today's issue, you appear to have assumed that I referred to the person appointed to thnt position in Dimcdin. Aliow me to quote from your, report of my speech :i " I l'- now . . . . that a First Division rimn, who as far as I know, has novor milistod has been appointed to a secretarial position with that board at j magnificent salary and all expenses paid." Plow anyone enn infer from thoso W ords # that I was spwikin" of the Duncxlin anpointment I am nt a lo"s to iuid"«tancl. To make my position cloar to you, I wish it to bo lmrln-stoorl ftnt I did not rofor to the secretarial apnointment for this district but to an appointment to one of the northern districts. Thr> person .anpo-ntod ts from Dunodin. and tlw f ar ts to whioh I save utt-rancn nro within the knowlrdge of m.tnv bunrdin citizens who sinc£ communifatod w-'th mo on the subject I fool mi.tc s,,ro that inquirv bv you will serve to m-ify the statements I have made.—l am, etc.. Dunedin, Mnro'i 21.