SALARY "CUT."

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 103, 3 May 1932, Page 8

SALARY "CUT."

TRANSPORT BOARD.

OPERATING' FROM MAY 1.

PEDUCTIONS UP TO 12 h PER CENT. JUNIORS TO RECEIVE INCREASES. Graded officers of the Auckland Transport Board receiving salaries of £370 per annum and over are to receive a second "cut" operating as from May 1. This decision was reached by the board in committee this morning. Salaries from £370 to £495 will be subject to a reduction of 5 per cent; £490 to £1000, 7i per cent; over £1000, 12* per cent. It was also decided that increases in salaries, less 10 per cent, be made in scale B and scale A, up to and including grade 2, such increases to operate as from April 1.

In respect to the increases in grades B and A, Mr. Alliun, chairman of the board, explained after the meeting that only junior members of the staff were affected and the increments, which were automatic, involved £ISO per annum. "No member of the staff receiving less than £370 per annum," he said, "is being subjected to a 'cut' in salary."

The reduction is on the lines of the "cut" proposed by the City Council at its last meeting. Members of the operating staff of the trams and buses are nol affected, as their wages are fixed by industrial agreement.