HOW MUCH?

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 219, 16 September 1935, Page 9

HOW MUCH?

RESTORATION OF CUTS.

* RAILWAY ORGANISATIONS.

"I am quite certain wo are going to get something, but I cannot say how much," Fnid Mr. E. W. Barnes, on Saturday night when referring at the annual meeting of the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Railway Officers' Institute to tho prospect of salary cuts being restored. The chairman was Mr. J. E. Williams.

Replying to the toaet of the institute, Mr. Barnes, the president, said the Prime Minister, Mr. Forbes, and the Minister of Finance, Mr. Coates, had admitted to a deputation of combined railways organisations that the request for restoration of the cuts was reasonable, and had promised to make the restoration when possible, adding that the matter would be friven tho utmost consideration when the Budget was being compiled. ' Mr. Barnes also dealt with the question of tho promotion of prade VII. men. They had been told that this matter must remain till the cuts had been dealt with, but promotions had been made from grade VII. in other branches of the Public Service and the executive of the institute considered the railways should receive similar treatment. * Tho general mannpr, Mr. G. H. Mackley, had promised to investigate the position and the institute hoped that tho regrading, postponed from 1934. would be carried out before the end of the present year. Toasts were honoured during the evening as follow: "The Department," "The Auckland Branch Committee," "Kindred Societies" and "The Artists." Items were rendered by Messrs. A. Austin. W. Harris, McMinn, Do Rosa, W. Foreshaw and Sanders.