CONDITIONS OF ENLISTMENT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2425, 1 April 1915, Page 6

CONDITIONS OF ENLISTMENT

IN PUBLIC SERVICE. A good deal of misapprehension appears to oiisfc in tlie Public Service and outside of it as to the position of members of the service volunteering for service with the Expeditionary Force. It is alleged that the practice in different departments is different The fact is that in. all the departments under the control of the Public Service Commissioner the rale is the same—a man who volunteers is given leave and hi# position is kept open for him until he returns. No question is ever raised about whether a man can be spared or not, and no man has yet been refused leave. In the Railway Service, where there was danger of disorganisation of work owing to large numbers of men of any class or classes leaving to go to the front, the General Manager insists that no man may volunteer unless he first applies l'or leave. If a man is granted leave his position will be open for him on his return. If a man is refused leave and still elects to a;o he ceases to be an. employee of the Railway Department. Ucnorally 6peaking, the practice soems to be to grant leave, but men ivho havo been refused lcavo have left the service and become soldiers. l'or toachors the rule is rather different. In this service the rule is that 110 teacher who serves with the Force shall receivo less than one and a quarter times his salary as a teacher in the position ho vacated. If the military pay,a teacher receives does not amount to thie. Jlie deficiency must be made up by tho Education JJoard under which ho worked at his profession.