CIVIL SERVICE ASSOCIATION.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15338, 23 July 1915, Page 9

CIVIL SERVICE ASSOCIATION.

ANNUAL CONFERENCE

iTRXSM ASSOCIATION TXLIGRA.U.} WELLINGTON, July 22. Tho conference of delegates of tho Public .Service Association was continued to-day, Mr J. W. Mac Donald presiding.

fl Resolutions were passed dealing with J? tho following questions: —Recognition of tho matriculation examination as equivalent to the senior Public Service fl examination; increased salary to cadets i- on entering tho Service classification; J salary of orchard instructors and fruit a- inspectors; retirements from tho Service; payments to married public ser- , vants whilst on active service with tho 11 Expeditionary Forces; maximum sal--8 ary of married public servants; teller's V allowance, long-service increment of " Defence Force; camp allowance to Pub--0 lie "Works engineers; seniority of offi--1 cere on passing examinations; pay- . ment to night watchmen for duty por--1 formed on Sundays; payment to Territorials for parades on Sundays, holis daj\s, and ''own time"; amendment of 0 rules of tho Association; statutory reeog--1 nition of the Public Service Associa- . tion; establishment of medical aid association; provision for social rooms; superannuation service of temporary officers who become permanent after five years' service; superannuation service of officers retrenched in 1D0 , ), and subsequently re-employed; alteration of boundary of Hawke's Bay section; status of certain officers of the Government Insurance Department; that equal pay He given for equal work, irrespective of sex; .allowances in the nature of salary to be regarded as "sal- * ary" for superannuation purposes; mii creased pension to widows; and investment of Superannuation Fund by tho r Board. LEGAL STATUS WANTED. At tho Public Servico Association . gathering to-night, reference was made • to the question of the Association being given a legal status. r Dr. Fitehett commended tho good work tho Association was doing, and urged that jt should be given legal ro- ■ cognition. Sir Francis 801 l said ho had never found the Association unreasonable, and he had been, perhaps, mor.o closely associated with it thau any other Minister. It was doing a public service to the whole community. Sir Joseph Ward said he would help the Association to got a legal statue. He. remarked that Sir Francis Beli had not actualiy proclaimed that the present Government would do this, hnt lie had gone next door to it. Sir Joseph said he had found that giving members of tho Public Servico power to regulate their own affairs never did any harm.