CIVIL SERVANTS' PAY.
DOUBLE DURING WAR. HUGE CHRISTMAS PRESENT. LONDON", December 25. The Government has accepted tho decision of the Appeal Court, and is paying out £2,000,000 to post office employees. The payment is described as the world's greatest Christmas box. (A. and N.Z. Cable.) Post office clerks and telegraphists who served in the war claimed full civil pay, in addition to a war bonus, for tho period of their war service, under an implied agreement when men were promised anything if they would serve, repudiation following when the necessity for soldiers had ended. The decision of the Appeal Court in several test cases was for the claimants. The employe6s affected number about 100,000
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 306, 26 December 1924, Page 5
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