PUBLIC SERVICE

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 10002, 20 June 1918, Page 5

PUBLIC SERVICE

ANNUAL CONFERENCE CONTINUED. ' The annual conference of the Public Service Association was continued yesterday. Tihe following (remits were adopted:— That this vfton'fet , ebi<jß l 'disapproveß of the total substitution v of the matriculation for the Public Service senior examination, and that the examination to bo sab for bo at the option of the candidate. That the Government provide for the furlough privileges recommended in the Public Service Commissioner’s report for 1914. ' - That the Public Service Commissioner be asked to recommend to the Government that’’niembbvs of the Royal Flying Corps'be given the same concession as regards leave and superannuation as other officers joining the New. Zealand Expeditionary Forces. LEAVE OF ABSENCE, That steps be taken to request that departments that have not done so notify, by circular to local heads, the present position regarding leave of absence. That officers of the General Division with ten. years’ service to their credit bp granted three weeks’ leave of absence as previously. That regulation 51 be modified to alldw any officer who may be refused annual leave owing to circumstances ’ arising out of the war, or who may voluntarily forego his annual leave to suit tho convenience of his department, to take such, accumulated leave at the first convenient opportunity. That public servants who have had to obtain their practical training outside and previous to entering the Public Service should, provided their training has exceeded. ten years, be granted twenty-one days’ annual leave. That night-watchmen he granted leave one night a, week instead of one night a fortnight, a s at present. MENTAL HOSPITALS. That the salaries of nurses and attendants at mental hospitals ho increased by £25 per annum. ’ That any damage done by a patient to tho private effects of an attendant or nurse attached to the mental hospital staffs shall bo made good by tho Government, That tho men in the engineroom staff of mental hospitals, who are engaged doing certificated onginodrivers’ work, bo classified, not as stokers, but as engine-drivers, and paid ns such. That nurses employed in mental hospitals receive salaries equal to those of single men. That the Commissioner be asked to consider the shortening of the hours of ifibrk for mental hospital staffs, and that same' bo given effect to after the war.