A CURIOUS BLUNDER.

Otago Witness, Issue 3313, 12 September 1917, Page 37

A CURIOUS BLUNDER.

In the House of Commons, on July 10, Mr J. Mason asked the Parliamentary Secretary to tho Ministry of National Servioe whether ho was aware that, under a notioo dated July 2, issued from bhe M.A.S. Office, 6 St. Helen's* street, Ipswich, it was proposed that Mr Speaker bo transferred to new employment as a labourer at Wolverhampton at 4s lOd per day, 5s per week war bonus, Saturday a.nd Sunday H.D. 4s lOd—(laughter)—on tho ground that such employment upon tho instructions of the Director-general of National Service, was deemed to bo of greater national importance than that on which the recipient of the notioe was at present engaged —(laughter)— and what steps tho recipient of tho said notice should tako to comply with its. instructions.—(Laughter.) Mr Book: Through a regrettable clerical error—'(laughter)—a oalling-up notice intended for Mr F. O. Oulpec-k was addressed to Mr Speaker—{laughter)—by a local officer of the National Service Department. Mr Culpeok, who is engaged by Mr Speaker as a gardener at Campsea Asho, volunteered for national service, and it is proposed to transfer him to the steel and iron works of Messrs Hickman at Wolverhampton. Sir C. Kinloch-Cooke: Is not this another example of the incompetence of the department ?