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Friday, July 20, 1973
"I would hope that responsible officers in all three grades will
bear in mind their responsibilities as public servants to the public whom
they serve.
I would also remind them that the government itself does not
accept that a trade dispute is a reasonable excuse for failure by officers
to perform their duties."
Dr. Choa concluded by repeating that the government's new pay acalos
were, in his view, very fair ones.
He emphasised that if the midwives and other officers concerned
did not wish to accept the new scales, and had no further constructive
new evidence to put forward, then it was entirely up to them to decide
whether or not to resign from the public service and seek better paid
employment elsewhere.
They could not, however, hope by means of industrial action
to force the government to give them more pay than could be properly
justified to the taxpayer.
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