WAGES CUT

Grey River Argus, 5 October 1934, Page 9

WAGES CUT

POLICE FORCE DISCONTENTED. fPer Press Association.) WELLINGTON, October 4. There is said to be much discontent in the police force throughout the Dominion concerning the adjustment of wages, but it has not assumed an aggressive form, as was rumoured in Wellington. Dissatisfaction is reported to be over the conditions associated with the 5 per cent, restoration of the cut in pay suffered by ail public servants. If is explained officially that although the first cut of 10 per cent, in April, 1931, was experienced by the police force along with other servants of the State, the second national cut of 10 per cent, imposed in April, 1932, was not suffered by the police, because the authorities, in recognition of the special work done by the force all over the Dominion, granted special allowances equivalent to the second cut in pay. That arrangement placed the police in a better position than all other civil servants. Following the recent decision of the Government to make a 5 per cent, restoration of the cut in salaries and wages through the public service, the special allowances to the police have been withdrawn. This is said to have caused discontent. The authorities state that the force is still better off than any other group of public servants, but a constable sail to-day, “ Constables are getting two shilling a week less.”