Claim For 5½
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P-Ng Case Opens
Days Week
r[E hearing of the Administr tion’s application for a restor tion of a 5i days week 1 Public Servants in Port Mores* Lae and Rabaul began in P<* Moresby on August 20 and laj adiourned to Rabaul.
The application is being heard Public Service Arbitrator, Mr.
Galvin.
A five days’ week for Territi; public servants was started as* six months’ experiment almost t years ago.
The Administration’s applicate is based on a contention that: the five days week is retained Europeans the privilege must, justice, be extended to natives, present natives employed by Administration work a 51 dl week.
If Mr. Sid Cook, who in recent y© has established a big and profits taxi transportation Port Moresby, has at last succeed m netting a substantial block : e-ood land in the Brown River a :s about 20 miles away from the toe He plans to move out there t become a primary producer.