THE GOVERNMENT SERVICE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 282, 19 March 1877, Page 3

THE GOVERNMENT SERVICE.

t'AJf IT MS! TP.t*E I Preceding and finishing the tale vtith nsnal amotmt of verbiage irt tefVremv to Fort Chalmers, the Xoittkhwl Tin*-* tv'U the Eollowing tab*:--"The waste* of Port Chalmers has a lacker salary than- the Chief Postmaster of VM-il-intern. The officer in qnesttou Li Mr. Wright, for many years Cuiec Postmaster of Canterbury. Some four or five year* ago, Mr. Wright was induced by the Government to leave the Post Otijee Department and devote himself entirely to the Government Assurance Department. Like a prudent man r however, he secured - his retreat by stipulating that if at any time he wished to> abandon the insurance business he should be provide,! with smother appointment in the Postal S'erviee lit a salary not less than ho was theft rocuivini*, Tin* Government gave- the required pledge, and some nine months ago. Mr. Wright, wishing to retire- from the business* of taking people's lives, ea'ded upon them to fulfil it. The Government accepted hi.--* resignation in the . Assurance Departm ,mc, bur. at temp to I to out of the other part of the bargab, saying the p!ed.£ : ;.; '* «^ ;, n iitionat on their foetag a suitably *>p*-iun:. ami that » w . Bfeaenttiters waii nunc in t.ie Postal Dj

partment. Mr. Wright, hotvever, was not to be fooled. tie is an'old otHccr has plenty of friends ami influence, ant! b not by any means dependent on the Civil Sen-ice, so that the end of it has been that the Ctovernfm t>t has been obHired to appoint Irim Postmaster at a salary of Lho9 a-year, and i'ort Chalmers has been fixed on as the scene of Iris labours, Iris predecessor there being in ill—health, and requiring a sea Voyage to San Francisco to set him up."