ENGINEER DISMISSED
TROUBLE OVER LETTER VICTIMISATION ALLEGED Press Association. INVERCARGILL, To-day. For some time past friction has existed between certain members of the council, including the Mayor, Mr. John Miller, and the engineer, Air. E. A. Gumbley. This culminated last evening in the confirmation, by seven votes to six, of a clause in the Works Committee’s report terminating the engineer’s engagement by three months’ notice, and relieving him of his duties from to-day. Amendments deferring the question for three months and referring the question to an independent tribunal were defeated by opponents of the motion. It was contended that Air. Gumbley had proved highly efficient and in street formation had saved the council £25,000. It was said that the engineer circulated among the councillors a letter replying to what he termed “deliberate untruths” about his work, and concluding: “I was under the impression that the victimisation and harassing of myself had been dropped and I was to be allowed to continue without that worry which renders efficiency impossible.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 408, 17 July 1928, Page 13
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168ENGINEER DISMISSED Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 408, 17 July 1928, Page 13
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