Police To Seek Wage Rise

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31005, 10 March 1966, Page 1

Police To Seek Wage Rise

Members of the New Zealand Police will seek a wage increase. A joint application by the New Zealand Police Officers’ Guild and the New Zealand Police Association is likely to lye made as soon as possible after members of the Police Tribunal have been named by the Minister of Police (Mr Allen).

“The New Zealand Police Association is preparing submissions in support of an application to the tribunal for , improvement of the police salary scale,” the general sec- ; retary of the association (Mr J Meltzer, of Wellington) i said when questioned in ( Christchurch last evening. He explained that the set- i tin" up of the Police Tribunal ] to hear applications regarding | < wages and conditions was!, authorised by the 1965 Police 11 Amendment Act, which was j j passed in the latter stages of i s last session of Parliament last j f year- Il

it provides for a chairman, who must be a judge of the Arbitration Court or a stipendiary magistrate, the choice to be agreed upon by the officers’ guild and police association: a member jointly nominated by those two organisations, and a Government appointee. “We have nominated our member, and his name is known to the Minister. We expect the names of the chairman and both members to be announced by the Minister shortly,” Mr Meltzer said. “We are awaiting word from the Minister as to the proposed chairman.”