Over Salaries

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Civil Servants Discontented Over Salaries

The GEIC Civil Servants’ As- Dciation has asked the Govem lent to set up a local commission

) investigate members’ salaries

nd to make a public report ithin three months because of

issatisfaction over increases in

le recently - announced Mayle

alaries Revision Award.

TOE Mayle Award, which also - covers the BSIP, was prepared r a Mr. Mayle, of the British alonial Office, who visited British rritories in the Pacific about two sars ago. It has caused similar in the BSIP.

The GEIC Civil Servants’ Associa >n held an extraordinary general eeting on November 12 and agreed accept the award, but with great luctance.

At the meeting, a resolution was ssed stating that the award was cepted only as an interim award r six months, and that the Govern ;nt should set up a local com ssion to study its defects and the use of dissatisfaction over it.

A few days earlier, Government icers addressed workers at three >lony headquarters stations about a ivernment proposal to set up work l committees to submit fresh :ommendations for the Colony’s ge structure.

Unestablished staff agreed at a iss meeting at Tarawa on Novem r 12 to end a two-day strike which d caused some disruption of ential services. * * * Islands in the Central and Southern Iberts were suffering from a mild )ught, the GEIC Resident Com ssioner, Mr. V. J. Andersen, said his return to Tarawa recently after tour of the area.

Sir. Andersen’s tour, which began October 29, took in Abemama, nouti, Beru, Nikunau, Tamana, Jth and North Tabiteuea, Aranuka 1 Maiana. Mr, Andersen has now ited all 16 islands in the Gilberts. re Tabunawati Takoa, an Assis t Administrative Officer in the

GEIC Administration, was made a member of the Civil Division of the Order of the British Empire at an investiture at Buckingham Palace on November 6.

Te Tabunawati Takoa, who is 38, has 21 years of Government service to his credit. He is at present taking a public administration course in England. * * * A Royal Engineers reef blasting team, which has been working in the GEIC improving passages at 12 outer islands, has now completed its task.

The team returned to Tarawa in late October and was to fly to New Zealand in an RNZAF Sunderland on November 21. * * * Mr. Justice D. R. Barwick sen tenced a native to three years’ imprisonment in the GEIC High Court recently for causing malicious damage to the Betio Club.

The native, Te Bwebwenibeia Kararaua, had been found guilty of setting fire to the thatched roof of the club on the evening of September