P. AND T. BONUS

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19811, 1 December 1919, Page 7

P. AND T. BONUS

o A DUNEDIN PROTEST. ' [Pun Press Association.] DUNEDIN, December 1. The Dunedin brunch of the New Zealand Post nnd Telegraph Officers’ Association passed the following resolution;—-“ That this section enters an emphatic pro lost, against the Government's action in not at once paying the war bonus which was undoubtedly promised by Sir Joseph Ward, and to its referring tlie matter to outside adjudication seeing that it is admitted by prominent members of the Cabinet that tbo promise was given. In regard to the minute of the Cabinet which is being used in an attempt to avoid payment, nnd which states that the bonus will not be paid if officers receive increases, we desire to point out that had tlie reclassification not taken place tho majority of the officers would have received increments of salary, and also that 11 large majority of the officers did not receive such increments as should bring their salary to tbo maximum to which the. last war bonus was paid, namely £330.”