UNIVERSITY BILL.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15203, 16 October 1919, Page 7

UNIVERSITY BILL.

The New Zealand University Amendment Bill, providing for additional allocations to university colleges, wfts Wad the second tinio. POST AND TELEGRAPH BILL. The Post laid Telegraph Amendment Bill was described by the PostmasterGeneral as a departmental machinery measure. He moved the second reading. Sir Joseph Ward raised a point which cropped up some days ago respecting the granting of war bonus to officers in the department, in addition to granting increases of salary. . The Postmaster-General explained that it had been decided to grant those officers additional salary where the increases did. not reach the war bonus standard. Sir Joseph Ward and otnor members urced that this was not adequate, as the increases to the staff had been made with the idea that the war bonus would be continued, and consequently were not as high as thty would otherwise have been. Several country members took the opportunity of complaining about the *lack nf telephone conveniences in country districts. * Another proposal which provoked criticism was one imposing on local bodies the cost of removing any electric lines ivhich had to be shifted 'owing to the alteration or diversion of a road or street. '" : Mr MneDonald, as ex-Postmaster-General, explained that the department had laboured wider a difficulty in the war of losing the services of over 4000 officers, but when in office lie gave definite instructions that services in backblocks districts should not be curtailed, ji nd' he hoped iiis successor would continue that .policy.