P.&T. INCIDENT.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 November 1922, Page 5

P.&T. INCIDENT.

AN APPEAL BY OFFICERS. EXPLANATION BY COUNSEL. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Mr. Mazengarb, legal adviser to the Post and. Telegraph Officers’ Association, writes to the Press challenging the accuracy of the order of reference to the commission set up to enquire into the charges against officers of the department “alleged to have been made by him.” He says: “(1) I have not made charges against administrative and other principal officer© of the department. I have merely reported on a complaint made to me by witnesses and added my own observations upon those complaints and upon evidence given in two matters in which I wa© -acting as counsel. (2) Neither in my letter to the association nor elsewhere did I state (as the preamble recites) that ‘facts favorable to the accused officers have been deliberately and wilfully §uppresaed.’ Neither the association nor myaelf was consulted about the order of reference in that reference. The comments, in my letter have been enlarged into charges of misconduct, while its scope has been so narrowed as not to permit of a full investigation. ”