RETIRING POST MASTER
WAIROA PROTEST
When professional and business men gathered in the Borough Council Chambers to make a presentation and say farewell on his retirement, after 41 years' service with the Post and Telegraph Department, to Mr T. J. Morrison, postmaster at Wairoa, the Mayor, Mr H. L. Harker. moved a motion of protest.
"This," said Mr Harker, after paying tributes to the guest, "is an occasion when we should make a formal protest to the Minister in charge against the forced retirement of men like Mr Morrison and other similar excellent officers. I' will move in that direction."
Mr G. M. O'Malley supported Mr Barker, stating that the present was one of the worst times for the Government to get rid of men of such
a type..
The motion was carried unani-
monsly.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 163, 3 October 1941, Page 5
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