POSTAL OFFICERS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11029, 18 March 1914, Page 1

POSTAL OFFICERS.

POSITION IMPOSSIBLE. WELLINGTON, March IS. At the annual gathering of msilrooni clerks tho chairman of the J/ost and Telegraph Officers'" Association referred to the dispute between the Association and the Public Service Commissioner.s.

Ho said it had engaged the attention of the executive for some 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 too Commissioners had been against the Association from the outset; that a differentiation between the grading of positions in tho Civil Service and the Fos£ and Telegraphs existed, and the , Commissioners had not removed : t.

This they could prove. The position was impossible, find they could not submit to the Commissioners' ruling. The servico bad objected to Conir.ii.;aioners, thoy did not want them, and tbe t irao was eagerly looker! forward to when the Department -would ugaui I>p under the control of a. Minister. The speaker also deplored the fact that uenior officers of the Department gave BO help and had not come forward at tlris crisis.

The secretary of the Department then Intimated that lie was quite willing to jppot representatives of the Association #nd to endeavour to nrr-ango on uikit-r----jtanding.