PUBLIC SERVANTS' ASSOCIATION

Evening Star, Issue 18333, 21 July 1923, Page 3

PUBLIC SERVANTS' ASSOCIATION

ANN UAL CONFERENCE,

[Per United Press Association.]

WELLINGTON, July 20,

The conference of (lie Executive Council of the New Zealand Public Servants’ Association was continued.

The following remit was carried' "That 11 io association urges upon (lie Government Ihe advisability of setting up a emmission of experts, not necessarily members of the Public Service, for the purpose of examining tho present system of public accounts and reporting to tho Government whether, in their" opinion, the system includes adequate safeguards against fraudulent manipulation of public moneys.”

A remit suggesting tho setting up of a committee of competent officials to prepare a handbook on Public Service accounting, and to make suggestions as to improvements in the system, was carried.

“That the special leave granted to mental hospital nursing staff; in recompense for long daily hours of duly be not .sub joct to reduction on account of sick leave,” was a remit- rent forward from Otago. —Mr F. W. Millar, general secretary, explained in detail tho position that it would lead to if the remit wore adopted. He said that ho considered it undesirable to press-for an alteration in the existing system.—Tho remit was withdrawn. A Wellington march remit in reference to tho maximum salary for certain officers —“No officer ’ hereafter appointed (not any officer now in the Public Service) whose salary was £2OO or less on (March 31, 1913, shall bo entitled to receive salary of more than £260 per annum unless he has pissed the senior examination, -or an examination which, in tho opinion of the Commissioner, is equivalent thereto ” —was defeated. Tho conference has concluded.