THE PUBLIC SERVICE.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 June 1921, Page 6

THE PUBLIC SERVICE.

REMITS PASSED. By TelejraDh —Press Association. Wellington, June 21. The annual conference of the Public Service was continued to-day. ' Among tlie remits passed were that there be an increase in the pensions to widows, either through an increase in the contributions of contributors or through a reduction in an officer’s retiring allowance, at his option; that the Housing Act be amended so as to extend the privileges to individual public servants; that the Government be requested to amend the Workers’ Compensation Act to remove limityof salary at £4OO in the ease of workers other than manual workers, or to insert an amending clause in the Public Service Act to bring all public servants within the scope of the Workers’ Compensation Act; that, in view of the fact that the amendment of the salary schedule of the clerical division has created an anomalous position compared with the schedule of the professional division, this council recommends that the Public Service Commissioner be given power to amend the second schedule of the Public Service Act, in order to bring the professional division as regards increments into line with the clerical division, and to maintain the same relative status as obtained prior to the readjustment of the clerical division in 1919.