PUBLIC WORKS ENGINEER.
[Pkh Press Association.) WHAKATANE, July IX Tho loss of Mr J. I), Holmes, District Public Works Engineer in clnno of the Bay of Plenty' railway con. struction, who enters into private bii-i----ness, has aroused an indignation protest. At the Whakatano Chamber of Commerce last night speakers declared that Mr Holmes was a young and able engineer, who, during his three month.? m charge, accomplished a, wonderful change in the progress of construction. A resolution war, carried protestin'' respectfully but firmly to tho Pnmo Minister | against the system of the Public Service Commissioners under which promotion by seniority throttled the advancement, of able and youn« men, and drove them into private woikT A resolution was also carried v.rgim'r Mr Holmes’s retention, ‘
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19999, 15 July 1920, Page 7
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