CONDITIONS OF ENLISTMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 253, 5 April 1915, Page 3

CONDITIONS OF ENLISTMENT.

IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE

A good deal of misapprehension appears to exist in the Public Service and outside of it as to the position of members of the service volunteering for service with the Expeditionary Force (snathe Dominion). It is alleged that the practice in different departments is different.

The fact is that all the departments under the control of the Public Service | Commissioner' the rule is the same—a man who volunteers is given, leave and his 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', 'p'«sw»!jrr! In the Railway Service, where there was danger of disorganisation of work owing to the large numbers of men of anv class o. ;lasses leaving to go to the front, the General Manager insists that no man may volunteer unless he first applies for leave. If a man is granted leave, his position will be open for him on Mg returri Jf I Joan is re fused leave and still elects to go, he ceases' to be an employee of the Railway Department. Generally speaking, the practice seems to be to grant leave, but men who have been refused leave have left the service and become soldiers. For teachers the rule is rather different. In this service the rule is that no teacher who serves with the force shall receive less than one and a quarter times his salary as a teacher in the position he vacated. If the military pay a teacher receives does not amount to this, the deficiency must he made up by the Education Board under which he worked at his profession.