CIVIL SERVICE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 221, 17 September 1940, Page 9

CIVIL SERVICE.

COST OF LIVING BONUS. APPRECIATION EXPRESSED. DUNEDIN, Monday. "I think the majority of our members feel gratified that the Government has recognised the justice of their claims for some assistance in meeting the increased cost of living," said Mr. E. C. J. Foot, president of the Otago section of the Public Service Association, when commenting to-day on the announcement of increases in civil servants' salaries. It had been felt for a long time in the service, Mr. Foot said, that some increase was due to the lower-paid workers, <who were definitely in need of assistance, particularly when they were married. It was especially satisfying to •ee that section receive an increase in wages, but members of the association on the whole were appreciative of what the Government liad done for them.— (Press Assn.) " ENTIRELY INADEQUATE." RAILWAYMAN'S ATTITUDE. WELLINGTON, Monday. A meeting of workers at the Hutt railway workshops to-day carried the following motions:— "This meeting considers the cost of living bonus given by the Government entirely inadequate, and reaffirms the previous decision that at least 10/ a week is necessary to 'bring the living standard back to the 1938 level. "That the meeting has no "confidence in the Price Investigation Tribunal as constituted, and asks the Government to give the workers representation on the. tribunal to enable serious control and stabilising of prices to be undertaken in the interests of the people of New Zealand." —(Press Assn.) COMMON POLICY URGED. PALMERSTON NORTH, Monday. The need for local bodies adopting a common policy in respect of increases of pay to those employees not governed by awards, so as to bring them up to •the level of those who benefited by the recent increase ordered by the Arbitration Court, was stressed at a meeting, of the Falmerston North Hospital Board j to-day. It was decided to recommend i to the Hospital Boards' Association that the increases should apply to the, first £350 of everybody's salary. |