By Land and By Air

worked with me for the 26 years in DVA. He knew the workings of the department from the ground up, and was always ready to help at any job that needed to be speeded up. He had an excellent way with veterans and handling the staff.

Miss Grant was the first secretary. She was not known for great speed but did excellent work and was quite pleasant to work with.

One time, Ottawa, in looking for outdated, useless workers, decided that the secretaries would keep a line count of everything they did. Poor Miss Grant would take half the day figuring what she did the other half.

80 Sterling and I decided to tell her to stop that added nonsense of line count. No one ever checked. I also told the secretary in Pensions to discontinue the line counts, to her great enjoyment, although she accomplished them with great speed.

That reminds me that when I started in Pensions, I had to fill out a long yellow sheet each day, showing any telephone calls and everything I performed. About six months after I arrived, they decided to cut out that yellow sheet for all the Pension Medical Examiners. About six months later, some egghead in Ottawa decided to return to the yellow sheets. I felt it was a waste of time and still do, so I never started the yellow sheets. Think of all the yellow sheets that would have accumulated for the next 25 years. When I went to Cape Breton, I used to have to fill them out, as well as when I worked in Camp Hill, as the P.M.E. in Halifax faithfully kept them. I always waited in horror for the time some inspector from Ottawa would come into the office and ask for the yellow sheets.

When the P.M.E. in Halifax went on leave, I used to go and work in Camp Hill Hospital. It was a good change.

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