Employees
p. 102 · Read in the full issue
Rations For P-Ng Native
A NOTICE in the Papua-New Guin Government Gazette, in Augu addressed rather quaintly to “ei ployers of employees,” advises that it now permissible to make a monete allowance in lieu of rations to no indentured labourers. This is permissit however, only if the labourer is willii and if there are facilities availal within three miles where the native c buy food, .. In addition to money or rations, the e: ployer of employees must provide a bla ket (if the altitude is not more than l.( feet, after which the allowance mcreai by about one blanket or woollen shirt : every 1,000 feet above sea level, to th; blankets and two woollen shirts ab( 5,000 feet); bowl, pannikin spoon, a b case, rucksack, valise or kitbag, and t lava-lavas to commence with, thereat one to be issued every month.
The monetary allowance in lieu rations “shall not be less than the wee rate assessed from time to time by 1 District Officer.”