DOMINION DAY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1860, 20 September 1913, Page 4

DOMINION DAY.

HOLIDAY FOR POSTAL DEPARTMENT. Tlio member for Ilutt (Mr. T. M.Wilford) asked the Postniustor-General in the House yestorday afternoon without notice if a circular had been issued stating that Dominion Day (September 22) was not to be observed as a holiday by the General Division of the Post and Telegraph Department. In reply,, tho Hon. R. H. Rhodes said that ho understood that such a circular had been issued, and that it was considered advisable to give compensation in lieu of the holiday. Sir. Rhodes explained subsequently that the circular was issued in accordance with tho Public Service commissioners' holiday regulations, which do not provide for tho General Division being granted a holiday on Dominion Day. Unless by special arrangement, therefore, officers of the Post and Telegraph Department in that division could not participate in the holiday. By way of compensation, however, arrangements were to bo made for the issue of- a regulation granting the officers of tho General Division who were not to have the holiday an oxtra. day to their annual leave; but yesterday tho Secretary of tho Post and Telegraph Department had made representations on tlie subject to tho Public Service Commissioner, whose, authority he had obtained to grant tho officers of tho General Division',of his Department a holiday on Dominion Day in lieu of tho proposed extra (lay. Mr. Rhodes added that although the matter liad been before tho Commissioner when Mr. Wilford put his question, the Commissioner's roply had not then been' received.