CIVIL SERVANTS' "TATT.'S" FUND.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 30, 10 May 1916, Page 6

CIVIL SERVANTS' "TATT.'S" FUND.

/'f^ n 6FHCE'SEDATION. ~ Siferj throughout the. Puft&Servioe, in Wellington on Saturiax Vespe>*mg an alleged action of mW tnc assistant .Public Service, Commissioners It appears, from the, version given to a member, Dominion staff that some meu.r, j feers of the staff of one Department, ■ kad heen in the habit of putting aside, so much per month from then- salaries j with which to purchase tickets in la*-, tersall's sweeps, a fairly common tice if, strickly ' speaking, an illegal one,' with many staffs, private and public, in New Zealand. This money! was collected regularly by a certamj member of the staff, and was deposited, in an old cash box cm the top of the, office safe. On Friday morning, so the j story goes, one of the assistant Public Service Commissioners paid a visit to the Department, took a pair ot steps, mounted to:the top of the safe,! and ; %ok possession of the. cash-box. -and the book in which-is kept a record 9 f the payments made towards the fund. Having done this it is stated that he a*ked the chief officer present, t„ take possession of the box and We pending inquiry This the officer| who had l>con approached declined to d», so'the Commissioner, himself is! said to have retained possession of the said articles. ! liter the Commissioner had witndrawn, the chief official called his *taff togetiier, and questioned them as to the affair, and asked orte officer dtr--BCfclv whether he had informed the Commissioner of the Tattersall's sweep matter. This officer admitted that he h?d informed the Commissioner of what was going on in the Department. The chief's opinion of the matter is stated to haVe been scarcely complimentary to the person who had given the Commissioner the information, and as the latter left the office at closing time something in' the nature ;of a demonstration was made against ' him.