Native Labour In New
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Guinea
New Ordinance Drafted
From Our own Correspondent
Port Moresby, Aug. 5
MAIN details of a new Native Labour Ordinance have been worked out at a conference here between Administration officers and employers’ representatives. The hew Ordinance will embody the Minister’s recent decisions on native labour, which included:— Native Employees’ Agreements to be introduced, abolishing the penal provisions in the present contracts and leaving only civil remedies; The minimum fixed period of employ ment to be 18 months, with provision for a six-months extension; Present employment conditions to apply until December 31, 1950; but contracts unfinished then to continue for the rest of the contract period.
Following the conference in Moresby, a draft Ordinance is being prepared and will be circulated among the bigger employers of native labour, with a view to gettting their comments. Those who attended the conference were Mr. E V Crisp (Planters’ Association of Papua)!
Mr. J. H. Allen (New Guinea Planters’
Association), Mr. G. Bliss (Madang Plan ters’ Association), Mr. J. Leslie (Bulolo Gold Dredging), Mr. A. Baldwin (Aus tralian Petroleum Company), and Admini stration representatives.