PUBLIC SERVICE PAY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 December 1938, Page 6

PUBLIC SERVICE PAY

MINIMUM RATES FOR ADULT OFFICERS. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Minimum rates of remuneration for adult officers employed in the Public Service, including the Railways Department and the Post and Telegraph Department, are prescribed in the Gazette issued last evening. They are as' follows:—

Male officers: (a) £155 per annum at 21 years of age, irrespective of service; (b) £165 per annum at 21 years or over, on completion of one year’s permanent service; (c) £175 per annum at 21 years or over, on completion of two years’ permanent service; (d) £lB5 per annum at 21 years or over, on completion of three years’ permanent service; (e) £195 per annum at 21 years or over, on completion of four years’ permanent service; (f) £205 per annum at 21 years or over, on completion of five years’ permanent service; (g) £215 per annum at 21 years’ or over on completion of six years’ permanent service. A messagejoy service in the Post and Telegraph Department in excess of three years shall for the purpose of computing minimum rates of remuneration be deemed to be permanent service. Female- officers: £95 per annum. The following is the. minimum rate of remuneration for married officers: (a) For officers employed at an annual remuneration or annual rate of. remuneration, £2lO 8s Id per annum; (b) for officers employed at an hourly remuneration or hourly rate of rumeration, 2s o|d an hour; (c) for officers employed at a remuneration or rate of remuneration otherwise fixed or computed, a rate proportionate to that set out in paragraph (a).