SHOWERS OF DOCUMENTS

Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 22606, 10 May 1945, Page 4

SHOWERS OF DOCUMENTS

REMARKABLE DEMONSTRATION CHEQUES FLUNG INTO STREET (By Telegraph—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Wednesday Complaints reached both the Public Service Commissioner and the Commissioner of Police yesterday that records containing information of a very private nature had been picked up on the main streets of Wellington, where they had been thrown from office windows. The matter w T as viewed seriously. Girl clerks employed in certain Government offices where confidential records are handled are reported to have ‘‘simply gone mad” and to have thrown all manner of documents from windows. Staff members in the Navy and Air Departments are said to have tipped on to the streets numbers of duplicate allotment forms containing the names and addresses of women who receive allotments and the amounts received. Some of these records were complete sheets and undefaced. It is reported that allotment cheques, too, reached the streets and office boys had a busy time trying to sort out the oats from the chaff. They had plenty of winnowing to do in the litter on the streets. Statistical records dealing with the Children’s Court and wiui divorces reached the street from another Government office. RAILWAYMEN’S DECISION NO WORK UNTIL MONDAY AUCKLAND, Wednesday A decison not to return to work until next Monday was reached by the staff of the Otahuhu railway workshops at a lunch-hour meeting yesterday. In accordance with the statement of the acting-Prime Minister, the Hon. W. Nash, the men were to have had Wednesday and Thursday as holidays in celebration of the European victory, but the staff decided by an overwhelming majority at a ballot held at yesterday’s meeting that Friday also would be observed as a holiday. The staff does not work on Saturday. The men celebrated the European victory at the meeting. The workshops band was in attendance and played selections. A brief ceremony was held in memory of fallen comrades and returned men from this war marched through the workshops between lines of cheering workmates. __________