N.Z. CIVIL SERVANTS' ASSOCIATION.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 169, 17 July 1907, Page 8

N.Z. CIVIL SERVANTS' ASSOCIATION.

FORMATION OP AX AUCKLAND BRANCH. A well-attended meeting of Auckland Civil Servants was held at tile Chamber or Commerce last night to consider the advieableness of forming a branch of the New Zealand Civil Servants Association. Mr H. R. Spence presided. In opening the business, the chairman read a circular letter issued by the parent body in Wellington, inviting the civil servants in tlie various centres to co-operate in forwarding the objects of the Associa : tion. The circular pointed out that the general objects o£ the Association, as set out in its rules, which had been drawn up by the Provisional Committee, and printed, were: (a) To promote the general welfare of the Service by any means not inconsistent with its regulations. (b) To uphold the rights and just claims of the Service. (c) To afford opportunity for giving expression to its views and opinions, (d) To encourage social intercourse and "esprit de corps'" among its members. With a vi«w to carrying out these objects effectively,, the executive committee was bent upon obtaining the co-operation of the Service as a whole. It was all-important that the members of the Service should Immediately have such a strong combination, and be so thoroughly organised under a representative system that their recommendations to the Government must carry weight. As was well known, the questions of classification and superannuation would be dealt with shortly by Parliament, and it was to their interest to take a part in endeavouring to obtain just and adequate terms for members of the Service. The chairman drew the attention of the meeting to the advisableness of forming a branch for purposes of co-operation with the Wellington body, as at the present time several measures -were before Parliament of <H»ep and vital interest to the Civil Servants of the colony. It was urgently desirous that Civil Servants throughout the colony should be unanimous in any action they toofc. and, although far away from the centre of Government, they In Auckland might yet have a very large say in the destinies of the Association should they join. He then moved: "That a branch be formed In Auckland of the New Zealand Civil Servants Association."

Mr Tote seconded, and the motion was unanimously adopted. The following committee of fifteen was appointed to deal with executive matters: —Messrs Pound. A. H. Vickerman, Glenister, Fletcher, Laseron, Earle, Spicer, Mackenzie, Smith. Martin, Spence, Blow, Thomas. Dadson, and Culpan.

Mr Wheeler proposed: "That this meeting, representing all branches of the Civil Service, respectively urge upon the Government the desiraßTeness of passing into law during the present session of Parliament a Civil Servants" Superannuation Bill, or a bill embodying the principles contained in the bill Introduced last session, and would also welcome a suitable classification bill."

The motion was seconded by Mr Dadson, and adopted unanimously.