P & T OFFICERS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2015, 24 March 1914, Page 6

P & T OFFICERS

CONFER WITH COMMISSIONER. The temporary breach between tho Public Service Commissioner and tho Executive Committeo of the Post and Telegraph Association has now been effectually healed.' Members of tho executive waited ivr/on the Commissioner yesterday to present and discuss tho representations agreed upon at the annual conference of the association in November last year. At a meeting which lasted throughout tho afternoon satisfactory progress was made with- the business in hand. Tho chairman of. the executive of the association, when he- was interviewed after the meeting, stated that the satisfactory termination of the dispute was very largely duo to the efforts at reconciliation made 'by Mr. W. R. Morris (Secretary to the Post and Telegraph Department). Thk the .Secretary had been able to accomplish what he had was a striking evidence of the good fecliiiK that existed 'between the staff and tho heads of the Department. The Commissioner, it was added, gave tho delegates an excellent reception, but it was, of course, impossible to say how ho was 'going to deal with the matters placed before him. Taking it all round, however, the answers given wero satisfactory to the association, and, broadly speaking, only important matters, such as might involve the alteration of the Act governing the Department, were held over, pending a conference between the Commissioner and the Assistant-Commissioners, who nre'at present absent from Wellington. On the whole, it wfts stated, the interview was one of tho most satisfactory that had taken place between the Commissioner and the Post and Telegraph delegates, and tho members of the executive believed that the final settlement of the trouble would lie hailed with satisfaction throughout the service, and that it would be recognised that thero.had been no loss of dignity cither by the Commissioners or by tho association.