A POPULAR OFFICIAL

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10617, 16 June 1920, Page 3

A POPULAR OFFICIAL

PRESENTATION TO MR. W. R. MORRIS.

air W. I?. Morris, late Secretary to the P. and T. Department, was last night made the recipient of a presentation by the New Zealand Post and Telegrapli Officers' Association. In tendering the gift—which was comprised of a silver ash-tray, together with two divan and two tub chairs beautifully upholstered in hrown leather, Mr R. 13. Reynolds, senior vice-president of the association, said that it gave him very great pleasure to hand to Mr Morris some tangible expression of the very deep regard in which he had always been held by officers of the Post and Telegraph Department. There was no doubt but that the loss they would . sustain would be to the gain of the Public Service, to which Mr Morris had been appointed a Commissioner. Ho had always been a loyal friend and a most capable and tactful administrator. As the senior officer of th ( ; association in Wellington for the last twelve months, he could say confidently that Mr Morris was always tactful, courteous, and prepared to assist them in so far as it lay in his power. Ho desired to congratulate him on the decorations . recently conferred on him by the Imperial Government. They were all deserved. In Mr Morris they had probably the finest secretary that had ever graced the P. and X. Department. Mr Morris, who was received with great enthusiasm, in reply, said that he hoped he would always retain their regard. He had always done his besttoehold the scales evenly-balanced between flic staff and the controlling anthoriticSi His sympathies were - with the staff, and any discontent was begotten of the increased cost of living, which was the outcome of the titanic struggle through which we had recently gone. Ho was satisfied that the Government intended to deal with them sympathetically and generously'. Ho thanked them for their kind expressions and tokens of regal d.