POSTS AND TELEGRAPHS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 74, 18 March 1914, Page 6

POSTS AND TELEGRAPHS.

THE DISPUTE-WITH THE COM-

MISSIONERS.

[Pee Peess Absooiation. 1 Wellington, March 18.

At the annual gathering of mailroom clerks, the chairman of the Post add Telegraph Officers’ Association referred to the dispute between the Association and the Public Service Commissioners. He said it had engaged the attention of the executive for months past, and the advice of the best men in the service had been sought, but no solution was arrived at. It was generally admitted and regretted that the Commissioners had been .against the Association from the outset. He repeated that differentiation between the grading of the positions in the Civil Service and the Post and Telegraphs existed, and the Commissioners had not removed it. This they could prove. The position was impossible, and they could not submit to the Commissioners ruling the Service. They had objected to the Commissioners; they did not want them; and the time was eagerly looked forward to when the Department would again be under the control of the Minister. The speaker also deplored the fact that the senior officers’ department gave no help, and had not come forward at this crisis. The secretary of the Department then intimated that he was quite willing to meet the representatives of the Association and endeavour to arrange an understanding.