POST AND TELEGRAPH.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 June 1919, Page 4

POST AND TELEGRAPH.

RESOLUTIONS OF PROTEST. By Telegraph.—Press Association. > Hamilton, Last Night. A largely attended meeting of the P. and T. Officers' Association unanimously resolved: That this Association desires to place on record its dissatisfaction with the classification list, the'meeting being emphatically of opinion that the department has totally disregarded the cost of living in compiling the list, and desires specially to call attention to the inadequate increases provided for experienced and qualified officers of rank and file. The meeting further calls upon Cabinet to authorise the immediate najft merit of the war bonus instalment, as promised, and that such bonus be automatically increased or decreased as the cost-of-living barometer rises or falls. Christchurch, Last Night. At a mass meeting of the Christchurch telegraph section to-night the following resolution was carried: That this section of the telegraph division endorses the resolutions passed by the Wellington and other sections as appears in to-day's press telegrams, expressing dissatisfaction concerning the present classification and the non-payment of the promised bonus.

At a meeting of the New Plymouth branch of the Post and Telegraph Officers' Association it was decided: That the New Plymouth section o! the Post and Telegraph Officers' Association d»> plores the fact that no attempt has been made to reclassify the rank and file of the service, and requests that payment of the balance of the war bonus be paid forthwith, as promised.