Public Service Association's Annual Meeting
WELLINGTON, Aug. 23. "As representatives of a depressed class you are all looking l-emarkably well," said the Prime Minister, Mr. Fraser, at the annual meeting today of the Public Service Association. Mr. Fraser said that the Government could not subscribe to the proposal that because oue class or section of Workers had received a percentage increase in remuneration those on higher salary levels should receive a similar percentage in advances. His remark followed a statement by^the^residenbjDf. the association, Nff. p.' Lewiii, 'that there was widespread dissatisfaction over the relative economic status of _ members of the Public Service within the community. Mr. Lewin said: "We cannot-ac-cept with resignation the depressed position into which public servants as a class have fallen." During the past ten years almost every section of the community had fared much better than civil servants. Farmers' hlcomes had been doubled and age benefits had been increased by 66 2-3 per cent., but in the same period, said Mr. Lewin, the b^sic rate in the Public Service had risen by only 47 per cent and by only 18 per cent. in intermediate and senior grades.
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Chronicle (Levin), 23 August 1949, Page 4
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191Public Service Association's Annual Meeting Chronicle (Levin), 23 August 1949, Page 4
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