POSTAL EFFICIENCY

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 17, 15 August 1928, Page 2

POSTAL EFFICIENCY

Responding to the toast cjf the. Postmaster-General and the P. and T. Department at the smoke concert of the P. and T. Employees' Association in Wellington, the Hon. K. S, Williams paid a. graceful tribute to tho and intimate part played in the daily lives of the 'community by every member cf the postal servjc4. Speaking not : \s Post-master-General, nor yet las a member of the Cabinet, he wished, he said, at the iinst gathering of officers of the; Department lie had ever attended, to thank them a s a back country farmer for their ready efforts to make the lives oij the hack country people bearable. In the case of illness, or at tiny time when there wasl need of assistance in the home, tho postal people were the first to ring up and ask if there was anything that cciulcli be done to help. It was that kindly consideration and eagerness to please, which made the work Department, from thu highest to the lowest in it, appreciated throughout the whole of the country. Frequently they were called upon to do anything and everything, and because they did it well they had an exceedingly high name all through New Zealand,