P-NG Public Servants

Act on 5-Days Week

DUBLIC Servants of Papua and

i New Guinea who have been

campaigning for a 5-days work

ing week for some time took

their demands a step forward on

liily 31.

lOn that day they served a memorial on the Public Service Commissioner, Mr. T. A. Huxley, in Port Moresby, asking that the pub ic service arbitrator amend public iervice regulations to make their weekly working hours Monday to Friday from 7.45 to 12.00 noon and rom 1.00 pm to six minutes past our. [On August 2, a similar memorial iras served on the Administrator, Jrigadier D. M. Cleland, and a bird posted to the Minister for territories, Mr. Hasluck. ■ The Administration has 28 days rom serving of the memorials to 3dge an objection, and an arbi rator will then call a conference f the parties. The arbitrator can lake a decision if no agreement is Bached. [No arbitrator has yet been ap ointed for the P-NG Public Ser ice, as this is the first time in the 'erritory that an appeal has been lade to the Arbitration Court. An ppointment will now be made by ie Governor-General.