The P. & T.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 75, 23 November 1922, Page 5

The P. & T.

COUNSEL IN TROUBLE. Per Press Association. Wellington, November 22. Mr Mazengarb, legal adviser to the Post and Telegraph Officers’ Association, writes to the Press challenging the accuracy of the order of reference to the commission s’et up to enquire into the charges against officers of the department “alleged to have been made by htim.” He says: “(i) I have not made chargbs against administrative and other principal officers of the department. I have merely reported on a complaint made to me by witnesses and added my own observations upon those complaints and upon evidence given in two matters in which I was acting as counsel. (2) Neither in rtiy letter to. the association nor elsewhere did I state (as the preamble recites) that ‘facts favorable to the accused officers hav© been deliberately and wilfully suppressed.’ Neither the association nor myself was consulted about the order of reference in that inference. The comments in my letter have been enlarged into charges of misconduct, while its scope hits been so narrowed as not to permit of a full in vestigivtion.”