Paid Holiday
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Fiji Workers Gain Extra Paid Holiday
FOLLOWING representations to the Government by the Fiji Congress of Labour Unions some months ago, the Government an nounced at the beginning of Sep tember that Public Works Depart ment employees will in future be awarded a paid holiday on New Year’s Day each year. Present paid holidays for labour are Good Fri day and Christmas Day only.
It is expected that private em ployees will come into line. (In Papua-New Guinea there are no less than eleven public holidays per annum. Australians have always shown real genius in this depart ment) .
A 420-feet long fishing net, which the Resident Agent of Aitutaki, Cook Is., acquired from Fiji for the use of the people on the island, has brought in up to two tons of fish per haul, enough for the entire population.