LATE LOCALS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 October 1922, Page 3

LATE LOCALS

,A meeting of the United Football Club takes | h-re in Mclntosh’s Club Rooms on Saturday evening at i .30 o’clock. All mem tors are requested to attend. - Advt. Otfi.-eis of t e P stal Department, guilty of misconduct, are the subject of amending regulations gazetted last week. Hitherto, if i n officer was obviously guilty of an offence, such ns

■drunkenness, the Secretary "as required to charge him. and. it he denied tile truth of tho (barge, to hold an enquiry. Regulation 31 is now revoked. and, if the officer denies the charge, and the Secretary is of opinion that the officer is guilty, lie may, according to tile nature of the offence, reduce or fine ihm, deprice him ot leave or dismiss him from the Department ;

or he may appoint one or more persons to enquire as to the truth ol the charges. Tn either ease, the officer Inis the right of appeal. Officers convicted of an offence under the criminal cede shall he deemed to have forfeited their office. An amendment is also announced, in regard to admission to tin* leclinipal branch by reducing the age from

35 to 25 years. It lias been found in practice that very few candidates were attracted under the previous age limit, for, after three- or four years of pre- l partition, an officer would he in the forties before liis turn, for appointment to such positions as telegraph engineer. The .regulations in regard to overtime travelling and relieving allowances are amended, to conform to the second “cut” in salaries. The rate is not interfered with the change merely being that the classifications of salary are made tq conform to the ratps hitherto nvicfiiiff