THE LETTER CARRIER

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2339, 22 December 1914, Page 7

THE LETTER CARRIER

HIS WORK APPRECIATED. Appreciative remarks on the work done by the letter-carriers throughout New Zealand woro made by Mr. W. R. Morris, Secretary to the Post Office, when responding to the toast of "Tho Post and Telegraph Department" at the Wellington Letter-Carriers' annual, dinner on Saturday night. It was a great service they were doing, he Baid, and throughout the length and breadth of Now Zealand they were doing it very efficiently. As evidence of the confidence the Department had in them, they had recently been called upon to purge the electoral rolls. They renderod that service in a highly efficient manner, and the work was done in excollent order That was the opinion expressed to hin by the Chief Electoral Officer. Personally he did not think the work entailed on them individually was very great; and it was not the remuneration they were looking for when they did the work. They wanted to show that when a duty was put on them they could perform it, and they had done so. He did not proposo to indulge in- statistics, but he thought that he might be permitted to say that the business of the Department, despite the terrific struggle the nation was indulging in, showed not a decrease, but an'increase. That increase had been marked in the September quarter, while in the Savings Bank the deposits for October and November showed a large increase over the withdrawals. That showed the confidence tho people had in "tho people's Bavings bank. ' Tho Service had also responded remarkably well to the call for assistance made by the Empire. In addition to sending so many men, they had also a romarkablo manner to the Patriotio Fund._ No other Department in the Dominion had responded better, for they had given close on £2000. Tho contributions had not been squeezed out, for from one end of the country to tho other the response had been most satisfactory, (Applause,)