SALARIES OF CIVIL SERVANTS

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22237, 30 October 1937, Page 21

SALARIES OF CIVIL SERVANTS

* POSITION OF POST AND TELEGRAPH EMPLOYEES vTT.ESS ASSCCIATtOX rEIAC-A- --■ AUCKLAND. Octoocr A?, i Responding to the toast cf the "A--I scciation” at the annual reunion ot !the Auckland section of the Post inti Telegraph Employees’ Association night, the Dominion president 'Mr H. W. Parnell) said that there v. ere many rumours of increased sajtrxe but so far the association had nobeen advised by the Government it proposed to do to improve ccn_rj tions. i However, the Government .ve [given the association an assurance that it would have an opportunity state its case. Surely by now th : Government should be in a posii.c.; ■to increase salaries and grant reciass.- : fication. ! At a later stage the Hon. F. Lach. jM.L.C., who had been asked by th. ! Prime Minister (the Rt. Hen. M. h 'Savage) to represent him at the gath[ering, said that Mr Savage had ni- | formed him that he would keep his j word with the Post and Telegraph DeI partment. i “No matter what improvements are (made, they will not be made until yon i have had an opportunity of ben heard and the promise will be hoi, j cured, right back to Apia!. Vi people have no need to fear,’’ addea IMr Lark.