TO BE CHALLENGED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27078, 12 May 1949, Page 8

TO BE CHALLENGED

METHODS OF APPOINTMENT POSTS IN STATE ADVANCES CORPORATION PA WELLINGTON, May 10. The New Zealand Public Service Association intends to bring a Supreme Court action to challenge the methods of appointment to certain senior positions in the State Advances Corporation. A decision to this effect was reached at a meeting of the National Executive . Committee of the association, at which it was stated that it had not been possible to obtain from the Government any decision on representations made over the past three years. The general secretary of the association, Mr J. Turnbull, explained today that appointments to positions which included those of manager and assistant manager had not been made by the Public Service Commission because an Order-in-Council made in 1936 purported to. exempt them from the Public Service Act. . When the Act was amended in 1946 the Order-In-Council was to have been revoked, but this had not been done. The association had been advised that certain appointments were not valid, and it had corne to the conclusion that the only way of clearing the matter up was to test the position in the Supreme Court.