NO GRAFT IN N.Z.

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 497, 29 October 1928, Page 12

NO GRAFT IN N.Z.

TOWN CLERK AT POSTMEN’S SOCIAL TRIBUTE TO HOSTS “In my 20 years* experience I have known of no transaction in which any of th© people’s representatives could ever have been dishonourably implicated,” said Mr. J. S. Brigham, town clerk, when speaking at the Auckland Postmen’s Welfare Club smoke concert on Saturday evening. “There is nothing in th© nature of graft in New Zealand’s local body politics.” Mr. Brigham paid a glowing tribute to the work of the Post and Telegraph Department in general, and the Auckland postmen in particular. Replying to thfe toast of “The Department,” Mr. W. J. Gow agreed with Mr. Brigham that the postment of Auckland were particularly efficient. “Th© humidity of the climate and the steep hills on some of the walks make the performance of a postman’s duties more arduous than anywhere else in the Dominion,” he said. Air. Gow realised that many postmen were fully qualified for promotion, but regretted that suitable positions were scarce. He advised the men to keep up their knowledge of the work so that they would always be ready for advancement when it should come their way.