PUBLIC SERVANTS

Evening Star, Issue 19024, 20 August 1925, Page 11

PUBLIC SERVANTS

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL [Peb United Pbebs Association.] WELLINGTON, August 19. At the Public Service Association’s Executive Council meeting the following additional remits were carried: — “ That the probationary period for nursing staff of the mental hospitals department be reduced.” “That a six-day week of forty-seven hours per week be granted to prisons and reformatory staffs throughout the dominion, with alternate Saturdays and Sundays whole day free from duty, or alternatively that an increase of £2O per annum be made to the salaries of all prisons officers on account of the long hours of duty.” ‘‘That the camp allowance granted to surveyors, engineers, forest rangers, and field cadets be 4s per diem.” “That the Government be requested to repeal section 10 of the Public Revenues Act, 1910.” “ That the filling of higher positions in the Lands and Survey Department be again brought before the Commis-i sioner.” “ That the Commissioner arrange to have Easter Tuesday added to the list of holidays.” “ That the Executive Council point out to the Government the urgent necessity of providing houses at beaciiff and Stoke for attendants.” . “That a reduction be'made in the charges for board and lodging for the extra month's leave which the mental hospital staff now receives.”