PUBLIC’ SERVICE CUTS

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2401, 10 April 1931, Page 6

PUBLIC’ SERVICE CUTS

AUTOMATIC INCREASE GOES LOWER-PAID MEN AFFECTED vPer Press Association). Wellington, April 0. A long-service increment of £0 a year to officers of the general division of the. Public Service receiving not more than £IBO a year, has been terminated. This -benefit- to the lower-paid officers lias been operating 18 years. Notice of tliis Government economy was given in the Gazette issued this evening. The announcement revokes a regulation which granted office vs receiving tip to £IBO a year an increment of £0 a year when their services reached 15 years. The ineiea.se was conditional on a favourable report on the conduct of the cm pi oyer.