§ Mr. ELLIS SMITHasked the Prime Minister what Government employés enjoy the privilege of a holiday with pay on the King's birthday, stating the grades, technical, industrial, and clerical?
§ Lieut.-Colonel COLVILLEI have been asked to reply. Administrative, clerical and technical staffs and associated subordinate ranks employed in Government Departments are normally allowed a holiday with pay on the day appointed to be kept in the Civil Service as His Majesty's Birthday. The manipulative staffs in the Post Office are not included in this arrangement. Industrial staffs in Government establishments708W (in addition to an annual leave allowance of six days) are normally allowed five public holidays with pay a year, in some establishments the king's Birthday is one of the holidays selected for this purpose.