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A POSTAL PROTEST. . | By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. At a meeting of the Post ajifl, Telegraph stall' to-night, the Public Service Bill was considered, and it was decided to make an emphatic protest against the proposal to bring the Post and Telegraph Department under the provisions of the Bill, on the grounds that the service as a whole is satisfied with the present classification, which, if properly administered, would eliminate political patron ace and departmental favoritism, and fcKafc t&e nature of the work and the houi* of duty in this department ewe entirely foreign to any other department of the civil 'service. The meeting urged that evidence he taken by a committee of the House of Representatives of branches of the Post and Telegraph Officers' Association. It is contended that the powers conferred on the Commissioner in the matter of promotion are not well enough defined, and that the provision for one appeal board representative for the whole of the department practically means the disfranchisement of one branch of tlhe service.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 97, 10 September 1912, Page 8
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175PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 97, 10 September 1912, Page 8
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