PUBLIC SERVICE BILL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 21, 17 September 1912, Page 3

PUBLIC SERVICE BILL.

A TIMARU PROTEST

(Per Press Association.) Timarn, September 16

The local branch of the Post and Telegraph Officers’ Association passed a, resolution supporting those of the Dunedin and Invercargill branches, protesting against this department being treated as others ’under the Public Service Bill, ft urges the special nature of the duties, entailing night, holiday, Sunday and broken time as a reason for separate treatment. The Minister is asked to give ;m opportunity to the representatives of the Association to give evidence before a Parliamentary committee.

WANGANUI WANTS AN OPPORTUNITY.

Wanganui, September 16. At a meeting of the Wanganui branch of 11 10 New Zealand Post and Telegraph Officers’ Association, held this evening, the following resolutions were passed: “That tin's meeting emphatically protests against the inclusion of the Post and Telegraph Department in the Public Service Bill, on the following grounds: (1) That the Post and Telegraph Department is‘dissimilar to all departments included in the Bill in the nature of the work performed and in the hours of duty ; (2) that under the proposed Bill the rights now existing and granted asicompensation to cover unnatural and extraordinary working periods wijl be lost; (3) that if the Post and Telegraph Department is included in the proposed Bill, all internal administrative legislation, will be wiped out, and twenty years’ endeavour set at nought; that this branch respectfully requests that opportunity be offered representatives from the various branches to give evidence before a select committee of the House of Representatives in support of their special claim.