AN "INDISPENSABLE'S" APPOINTMENT

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 7, 3 October 1918, Page 4

AN "INDISPENSABLE'S" APPOINTMENT

A PROTEST FROM FEILDLVG. By TcleEraph-Prcss Association. Fciltling, OcioTier 2. For some time it has been rumoured that the Justice Department was about to make a permanent appointment to the , , position of clerk of .'the Court in Feiiaing. >Humour added that a yoimg ■ mim from tho. Justice Department's . staff at Wellington; had received the appointment. Tho namo of this candidate for promotion is- the same as that of a reservist against: whose sending, to camp the Department success; fully , appealed on the ground that he was'indispensable' Yet, although tho clerkship at Foikliiig has been satisfactorily filled for nearly two years, tho Bepartinent now proposes to send-an. "Indispensable".to Feildina;. A full meeting of Justices of the Peace of the Feilding district, held to consider the matter on verification'of the reports, passed the following resolution of protest: "That this meeting of Justices of tho Peace of Feilding having learned that the Department of Justice proposes to appoint to the position of clerk of the Court at Feilding an officer who is fit for active service, and who has been exempted on the ground that he is indispensable to the Department, unanimously resolve to emphatically protest against 'such, appointment, on tho grounds that the position is at present' satisfactorily filled by a'temporary clerk ineligible tor military service. • The Justices or-lcilu-ing feel very strongly,that, in the interests of efficiency in the Dominion* nnd as ail example to employers in "eneral it is decidedly inadvisable that the Justice Department should appy for exemption for a fit and-'eligible reservist when the. position be is required to fill is already satisfactorily filled by a 'man ineligible, and icquest that the present arrangements at the Feildintv Court should be allowed to coiiti'nuo until the of. the war." .