POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 627, 13 December 1913, Page 7

POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT.

<§, SIR J. G. WARD'S REMARKS. Speaking at the letter carriers' dinner at Wellington last week, Sir Joseph Ward remarked that he felt very proud of the Department. When they heard of New Zealand being so often quoted by people across j the water, they could appreciate what | had been done in this young country. He had frequently been interviewed by men in other countries who wanted to know what was going on in New Zealand. There was something to be proud of in the Post Department and its officers. They married people, they registered births and deaths, they collected taxes, they diat'-buted information, and they paid old age pensions. It wai an np-tu-date department in every way. The only Ihing he went to see in the Auckland Exhibition was the exhibit of the Post and Telegraph Department, where the "ancient and the most modern instruments were to be seen, where wireless telegraphy was in operation, and where automatic telephones were installed, an a man was in charge to explain the working of the instruments?. It was commendable that the Department educated its own engineers, who were able to do work equal to what was done in any part of the world. In all, there was a very great deal to appreciate, and they should remember that is was to the executive officers and to men in positions such as that which Mr Morris occupied that the efficiency of the machinery of the 3ezvice was largely due. In Mr Morris they had a man of high ability. He hoped the Department would continue to develop, and that its fine record would go on improving as the years went by.