PUBLIC SERVICE RECRUITS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15931, 31 May 1915, Page 10

PUBLIC SERVICE RECRUITS.

, . Th j most interesting le ' article jin trv- Hhsax-D regarding'ifee Go.ci.imfnt's efforts to assist in getting their own employees to enlist- 17.58 read by many with great interest, an'l 'the thanks of i the community: are due fcv the writer of the letter in the same issue, en this, ; heading. ' But as nothing has yet, been announced it is well to "push" hat J. till the Government ■ ? - realise their responsiucl'ty.' I do not wish , . to repeat the ej -iliftn already, made or to lu' f.cr Ikis. £ the pettiness of ti the slight ineoavniw ioa which miffH arih® owing. to public &"-vaiits enlust.iig, J t \ there are mu or tv.. ■ other pofcls Va..a 1 the Gove, -meuv flight take iaw rmgi&m. ' • /."by eLvi-id the fc.Maiy of pubii.' ' jviints' cease imwdiateiy they wr-.. !?lor>ty o? businei." Louses aw ppy'V full ■ falarv iad other/t half salary while their rnemben> away. Could 'not the Gov .liurient puy tl,a differ ice between ♦ivi. uia'al salafW and <vh' <; he>r irHitim- jay i would be': At;ai!;, why could rol'Uie contributions to superannuation ce |->a : d in- . • stead of the present 'arrangement; c? joying nothing for a period' and then a portion of ibe amount only. It should have fcj*i: generously offered at once, especially as the wen "were drawing no salary except their military pay. Why, the friendly so- ■ cieties— at .least some of them I knoware keeping their members financial while aervirg at the front. Surely the Goveri- , m«nt» laid themselves out to keep their • employees at home. It is currently •rumoured that i* members of one Government Department go to. the war they go against instruction ,and - forfeit the right to re-enter the "service if they returi . Sir, this should not be. England didn't treat her men like that. Why., should New Zealand Again, numbers were refused point blank wher. offering at the beginning of tho war. Is it creditable! to the Government to ask for married, men to volunteer and !eav<i mibcryiand distress behind, on account of t' e .■smallness of t-ie pay. when hiindieds arc willing and offering md the Government refuses to take them, B2ITIBIIER.