TERRITORIAL FORCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 206, 1 September 1936, Page 5

TERRITORIAL FORCE.

LEAVE TO ATTEND CAMPS. CITY COUNCIL EMPLOYEES. Stating that he did not need to appeal to the Auckland City Council to do justice to its employees. Sir George Richardson, at the council meeting last night, moved three motions with the object of permitting those council employees who were members of the territorial force to attend training without personal loss. The town is to Investigate the number of employees affected. " Sir George said that at present employees wishing to attend camps had to take that time off their annual leave. The training received at camps in these days of mechanisation was more essential than ever before. The young men should not have to sacrifice their holidays, he added. The motions were: "(1) That the necessary leave, with pay, be given to all officers and employees of the Auckland City Council who are members of the territorial force, to enable them to attend the annual camps of their regiments, such leave not to be deducted from the annual leave; (2) that the necessary leave, without pay, be given to enable them to attend special courses of instruction which may be held during tlie year; (3) That the town clerk confer with the Defence Department and the various heads of departments of the council with a view to carrying out the above with a minimum of inconvenience to the council." Mr. L. J. Coakley seconded and endorsed what Sir George had said, stating that the council, as a large employer of labour, might set an example to other employers. The deputy-Mayor, the Hon. B. Martin, M.L.C.. moved an amendment that the town clerk be instructed to report on the number of employees affected by the first and second motions and that the third be held over until that rejort was submitted. The amendment was accepted.