FIJI OFFICIAL'S LAMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 186, 6 August 1923, Page 7

FIJI OFFICIAL'S LAMENT.

- ! FIVE HOURS' WORK ENOUGH. , PI T BLAME ON DO. TORS. j ' tl-'r. in finr .;.c.i:il I '..rre. pnn.lcl.t.l i J ' M'VA, duly 24. . i Winn must have been regarded a., a ' very t.niching incident occurred in the i • l.cgi-lativc Council, when the i.ovcrnor's . i i Message was considered, advising that ' . ' the old ollice hours of from il til! 4 he 1 , reverted to. Some niontiis ago. on the I - -cor, o; economy the l.overnment agreed < -to the recommendation of the r'.onomy I '.ommitlee that the ( ivil servants work ' . ' from S a.m. to 1 p.m.. thus giving a di*- j ' i ! tre-sed cotititr. one hour more ol" rvr\:r,\ ; ■ Ih I v-er.or s r.mnr.s arc n nitnv " ' stances naive. He *ays. -The main ■>'»- ! I i jeetiou is lii.il Ihe r-o.n. uNory extra hour | slemharra-cs ihe departmental head in i ' . ihis relations ivi.'i his .|,ff. Neither can . j .i it be expected thai subordinate "ho has . .!;„„.„ ,„ : „|e to work ..even hour- on many | . ; da\s when six would have -ullicc.l. will j i ' -how thai alacrity in rctnrnim? to the , ollice in the c.cniii.' or in tuning won. , home nil. him. Kxperten.e has shown ' that the live hour-' spell. Iron, . a.m. till . r ~.m. i- t»» i"". " i, "? u ' ■ •"■«-■■•'■ 'Mc li.al evidence cnarmsth:-. I o many. ." ! -hi ■inrot afford a servant and nave, 1 \_"ie-tic matters to attend to before i ' * I !'i, i e V !!ii.ee h T| , S o'ciocTlms proved a genu- j ,: , ~-uhii. \t this time ol ti.e year I .' !'" :.;„/'!.;,;,',.- op in i.k- dari". Kill- -,'-".'. s-l ~vi i aed iMlhcr than in rca.-( 1 | ' ' ','- ii,,. . Mr; com mlsiiry hour."' All ihi- . lv. no- ViC'Cl' I"' "".' co ild -.c tin 1ie.... e',l inemh'cr- -nit ing to hold back - j ,:,,„- tears of sympathy a« the plight or •• . , unfortunate «'iv 1 servants .v.,- ~,,- , s 1 folded hv His IA.-cllcicy. -uppon.d. a- „ -li -.M 'hv medical t-.tin.ony. although \ .i;::'■.:.;. .'- -*«■ - »■*■ , v r-™'!; .'",.,,, P . i"' r'.-i..-l j»l«' -«'.. ..hen Mr. j [ '.","'',",,,_ (.'nvernor thot when he had ' _ '".'..-.d_ moth... favouring mi .i_.hl J 1 '>iir day f '" i! " > worlv<>l ''' n: " *""'■''- ' 10 n *«l i i ,- rec'-:vel such a kindly sympathy ' - i from the Government side as his side now I nave the official proposal, and he slyly , "J added that now- that they had tiie. f - ' autboritv ot tDe medical faculty, lie I | hope- that when he again brought up 1 i j his eight hour proposal be would get a ' i I similar kindly sympathy and considera- c • I tinn. The .ally »a_ greeted with laughter. I 1 ! The likelihood of obtaining an eight hour . 1 i day I".- Fiji is decidedly more hopeful 1 . „... than it wa- before. |