POSTAL OFFICERS' HONESTY.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 226, 24 September 1929, Page 6

POSTAL OFFICERS' HONESTY.

j Gaining legislation is fast becoming— per. haps it has become—as "controversial".a topic as drink, with the unfortunate result that anyone who ventures to suggest that men (and women) were probably not intended to spend many hours a week in pondering their next gamble is promptly labelled "wowser." I disliked that epithet once, but think now that it may be a compliment. The Council of Chmtian Congregations, with whose pronouncements I usually disagree, tells the PostmasterGeneral that if the telegraphing of bets is permitted a constant temptation will be placed before postal employees. Surely it is selfevident that this will be so. Yet the Minister responds with a general statement about.the probity of his officers. This is not seriously questioned. What is questioned is their reaction to another set of circumstances. The best judges of what is likely to happen are the men themselves, and, the Post and Telegraph Officers' Association, which is not slow usually to express its opinions on other matters, should not be slow to ascertain its members' opinions on this. As for Mr. Donald's election pledge, I fail to see how this affects the situation. It was Mr. Donald the Postmaster-General not the M.P. for Auckland East who was interviewed. NEAR-WOWSER.