THE PUBLIC SERVICE ASSOCIATION

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 233, 20 June 1918, Page 6

THE PUBLIC SERVICE ASSOCIATION

ANNUAL CONFERENCE. The .annual conference of tho New Zealand Public Service Association was resumed in the Accountants' Chambers yesterday morning, under the presidency of Mr. George Allport. The following remits were adopted :•- That this conference disapproves of the total substitution of the matriculation ,'o.r the Public Service 6enior examination, and that the examination to be sat for be at the option of the candidate. That the Government provide for tho furlough privileges recommended in the Public Service Commissioner's report for

That tho Public Service Commissioner bo asked to recommend to tho government that members of tho Royal Flying Corps be given the same concision as regards leave and superannuation as other officers joining Now Zealand Expeditionary Forces. steps be taken to request that Departments that have not done so, notify by circular-to local heads the present position regarding i-eave of absence. That officers of tho General Division with ten years' service to their credit be'granted three weeks' leave of absence ss previously. That Regulation No. 51 be modified to allow any officer who may be refused annual leave owing to circumstances arising out of tho war, or who may voluntarily forgo his annual leave to suit the convemer.ee of his Department, to take such accumulated leave at the first convenient opportunity. Tint public servants who have had to obtain their practical training outside, and previous io entering the Public Service should, provided their training has exceeded ten years, be granted twenty-one days' annual leave. That night-watchmen be granted leave ono night a woek instead of one night a fortnight as at preiont.

That the salaries of nurses and attendants at mental hospitals be increased by £25 per annum. Tliat any damage done by a patient to the private effects of an attendant or nurse attached to tho mental hospital stall's shall be made good by tho Government, That the men in tho engine-room staff of mental hospitals, who aro engaged doing certificated engine-drivers' work, be classified, not as stokers, but as engine-drivers, and paid as such. That nurses employed in mental hospitals receive salaries equal to those of single men. That the Commissioner be asked to consider the shortening of the hours of work for mental hospital staffs and that same be given effect to after the war.