SOLICITOR-GENERAL ASKED FOR RULING
o — WELLINGTON, March 6. "Mental liospital nursus and attendants will resume call-back duty as from Friday morning,.' ' said Mr. L. G. Anderson, nctii|g president. of the.Public Ser* vice Assoeiation, tonight. " It has been agreed with the Prime Minister that the Wolicitor-General should be" asked for a ruling as to whether there was an agreement between the Publie Service Gommissioner and Assoeiation that overtime should be paid from April .1, 1946, for time worked in excess of 40 hours per week. The assoeiation has been assured tliat effect will be given to the Solicitor-Geneial ;s opinion if it favours the assoeiation 's pqints of view and for its part agrees to abide by the opinion should it prove adver»se to the assoeiation. It only remains for me, " Mr. Anderson eontinued, "to express profound admiration for the way in which inentai liospital nurses, men and women, have stood lovally by their group and their assoeiation and at the same time have meticulously honour.ed their orginial determination that patients under their care should not-suffer through the dispute. ' '
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 March 1947, Page 5
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