EFFICIENCY BOARD.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 April 1919, Page 7

EFFICIENCY BOARD.

THANKS TO LOCAL TRUSTEES. The New Plymouth Efficiency Board trustees—Messrs T. Furlong (chairman), E. Whittle, and F. J. Hill (secretary)— haffe each received a copy of the following letter from Mr. Thomas Moss, district commissioner for Wellington on the National Efficiency Board, in connection with services during the war period:—"lt is now about two years since you were asked to assist your country in overcoming the difficulties which confronted it in selecting, our young men from farming and from the industries, to enable them to fight an unscrupulous enemy, and at the same time to maintain our production Many have made great sacrifices, and yet there has been little complaining, and this, to a large extent; is due to the patriotic and generous manner in which the, trustees have worked?,to overcome thfr: difficulties met. with, Mr. Ferguson (chairman) has written expressing the board's appreciation of the work done ■ by"th' 6 'trustees, "btit"]"T6rmot let this opportunity slip -mthout-conveying" my own sincere personal thanks to you for the assistance rendered to me as commissioner in- carrying out m» administrate duties,as,. „■without, 'that.help, my efforts would have been futile. At times .your work has not been altogether f pleasant, but you have always acted jprithout fear or favor, and the first-consideration has been loyalty duty ijo your country..? | The work 1 fori which j.we volunteered is nearly completed, but we have no r idea what the future has in store; at present-ithf! ,unrestprevailing all over the warldiil'Very disquieting, but, of this I am sure, that if the bulk of our people are actuated by the same motives that prompted the trustee's to take up their work we have nothing to fear."