DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 October 1916, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS.

PUBLIC SERVANTS. J HlO RIGHT TO PROMOTION. By Tciegrapli.—Press Association. Wellington, Octobci 2". 11l May last the Public Service Commissioners advertised several vacancies for clerkships in the Public Trust Office and the Public Trustee selected two officers in the State Guaranteed AdMices Department to fill the positions. The permanent head of that depart* m"nt, objected to their transfer and, as hi? objection stood in the way of their promotion, the Public Service Association protested against the action of the head of the department. This appeal has now been upheld on the basis of the opinion of Br. Salmor.il, who says that speaking generally an oeer should be regarded as entitled, as cf right, to an appointment if he is suitable for it in respect to experience, ability and character, and if lie is the best of the applicants. Therefore to retain him in ail inferior position because !iis promotion will cause inconvenience in the Public Service can not, in ordinary circumstances, be justifiable. If any department thinks it necessary to retain an .officer in its service the proper method is to pay him as high a salary as he would be worth in the other department. If he is not receiving such ft his promotion to another department could not,be reasonably objected to. The board would be justified in requiring a strong case of unavoidable public, inconvenience to be made out before depriving an officer of any substantial promotion to wik«i lie would be olheiwise entitled. Sailed from, Bluff, at 4.40 p.m., Wimmcra, for Melbourne, DEATH UNDER ANAESTHETIC. Cli'istclmrch, October 25. Lawrence E. Gilbert, a laborer belonging to Little Akaroa, died in a private hospital when under an anaesthetic for the purpose of undergoing an operation. At the inquest a verdict that death was due to syncope, the result of ar, anaemic condition, was returned. ( CLENMARK ESTATE, Christchurch, October 25. Mr. P>. 0. Duncan, states that his offer of the Glenmark homestead . was not made to the Government, but to the Mayor of Christchurch in the latter's capacity as chairman of the Canterbury Patriotic Fund. He (Mr. Duncan), however. had no intention of allowing Glenmark to he made a dumping ground for consumptives o: soldiers suffering from oUier infectious diseases. SUICIDE ON, RAILWAY CROSSING Ch'.'istehurch, October -25oames Daniei», a miner, aged forty, res'rient at Kaitangata. but who had been living in Lyttelton for the past few weeks, was hit by a truck at a railway crossing this morning.- He was shockingly mangled, being killed instantly. At the ! n<i .'est, the evidence showed that Daniels threw himself deliberately in front of the moving truck. A verdict of suicide was returned.