“Delivering the Goods.”

They would find plenty to do in future in “delivering the goods” to the General Manager. He believed the Department required qualified men in every branch of the service. Transport men should want to become members of the Institute of Transport; those in the Accountancy Branch should aim to become members of the Society of Accountants, and so on with other branches of the service—in order that the whole organisation might be “up sides” with any other institution in New Zealand. He did not claim that they could be 100 per cent. efficient—any-one who did claim that was too good for this world—he should be superannuated. (Laughter.) But he would remind them that the General Manager was too shrewd to be taken in by any but the best standards of service, although he would be the first to recognise efficiency when he saw it.

Mr. Valentine went on to remark that their members had taken a leading part in many phases of public life and sport, and he particularly mentioned the pride they had in the success of Mark Nicholls, a member of their staff, who, in the last test match had secured ten points off his own boot and undoubtedly enabled the All Blacks to finish “all square” with the South Africans.