PUBLIC SERVICE BOARD TEMPORARY APPOINTMENTS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 62, 6 December 1917, Page 6

PUBLIC SERVICE BOARD TEMPORARY APPOINTMENTS

Sir,—From the gilded humbug with which £ho public is regaled in the Press anent the nobility ot women in filling men's places through patriotism one would think New Zealand has no available unemployed mule clerics whom the military authorities havo rejected. Now Zealand seems to have plenty. My name has been down on the list of the Public Service Commissioner since June. Yet 1 have liad 110 opening. And I am a rejected volunteer, and a thoroughly efficient penman. Now, I am not blaming the "flappers' ; I am endeavouring to show up the shallow tactics of the men who tuu affairs. Surely, if the N.Z. Government says in effect to a man: ' >\o will call on you if we require you, it is "hardly in keeping with all the palaver and so on that it should say to him: "But you can starve if we can Rnd female labour cheaper.' —1 am, clc. * [We know nothing of the circumstances of our correspondent s case, but for "humbug," gjldcd or otherwise, his assumption fiiat a man in New Zealand to-day must starve unless lie secures a good appointment, is narct to beat.]