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Why No insurance for N,G, Field Officers?
From Our Own Correspondent WAU, Oct. 2.
SOME years ago, Mr. E. W. P. Chinnery, then Director of District Services, endeavoured to force upon the powers-that-be the necessity for provid ing some sort of insurance for dependents of New Guinea field officers, in the event of death. Wau is still wondering whether this is one of the “shelved” matters, or whether something is being done about it.
In the N.G. Service, a clerk and a field cadet start on the same scale of salary.
The office worker receives annual in creases in his salary after the first year
of service. On the other hand the cadet has to prove his metal for two years before getting a rise; yet during his cadetship and subsequent years, the field officer, living mostly under isolated condi tions, is obviously exposed to very much more hardship and danger than the
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Tf Q „ n~iH°*rvf er 16S thr °? gh a mish ap in ir 6 nel r tn ere is no official provision in nature of msurance for his depend ents - Sometimes the Administration is generous enough to provide assistance; but, more often than not, this is inade- P ua te—one mother received the princely sum of £lo° for the loss of her son, upon whom she depended as her sole sup port.