PUBLIC SERVICE

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 65, 9 December 1938, Page 12

PUBLIC SERVICE

Pay Of Adult Officers MINIMUM RATES FIXED Minimum rates of remuneration for adult, employed in the Public Service, including the Railways Department and the Post and Telegraph .Department, are prescribed in the Gazette issued last evening. They are as follows :— Male officers: (a) £155 per annum at 21 years of age, irrespective of service; (b) £165 per annum at 21 years or - over, on completion of one year’s permanent service; (c) £ll5 per annum at. 21 years or over, on completion of two years’ permanent service; (d) £lB5 per annum at 21 years or over, on completion of three years'permanent service; (e) £195 per annum at 21 years or over, on completion of four years’ permanent service; (f) £205 per annum at 21 years or over, on completion of live years’ permanent service; (g) £215 per annum at 21 years or over, on completion of six years’ permanent service. A message-boy service in the Post and Telegraph Department in excess of three years shall for the purpose of,computing minimum rates of remuneration be deemed to be permanent service. Female officers: £95 per annum.

The following is the minimum rate of remuneration for married officers: —(a) For officers employed at an annual remuneration or annual rate of remuneration, £2lO/8/1 per annum; (b) for officers employed at an hourly remuneration or hourly rate of remuneration. 2/0.1 an hour: (c) for officers employed at a remuneration or rate of remuneration otherwise fixed or computed, a rate proportionate to that set our. in paragraph (a).