THE PUBLIC SERVICE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2521, 23 July 1915, Page 7

THE PUBLIC SERVICE

MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION. The sitting of the conference of delegates'of the Public Sen-ice Association was continued yesterday.. Resolutions were passed dealing with.'the.-following questions: Payments to married public servants whilst on active service with the Expeditionary Forces; maximum salary of married public servants; tellers' allowance; long service increment of Defenco Force; camp allowance to Public Works Engineers; seniority of officers on passing examinations; payment to nightwatclimen for duty, performed on Sundays; payment to Territorials for parades on Sundays, holidays, and "own time"; amendment of the rules; of the association ; statutory cognition of the Public-Servico Association: establishment. of Medical Aid Associations; provision of social rooms; superannuation service of temporary officers who became permanent- aftci five years' service; superannuation service of, Officers retrenched in 1009 and subsequently re-employed: alteration of boundary of Hawke's. Bay section; status of certain officers of tho. Government. Insurance Department; that equal pay be given for equal work irrespective of sex; allowances in nature of salary to bo regarded as "salary"' for superannuation purposes; increased pulsions to widows; investment.