OFFICE STAFFING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 174, 24 July 1936, Page 13

OFFICE STAFFING.

TECHNICAL COLLEGE WORK.]

MEETING OF THE BOARD. I

The officc expenses of the Scddon Memorial Technical College are on the whole low compared with other centres, due to the youthfulness of the girls employed, according to a report submitted to the college board of managers yesterday by the principal, ill - . G. J. Park.

Mr. Park pointed out that the total cost of office and audit expenses was' £072 a year. He recommended that one of the girls in the oflice, who is at present receiving £1 10/ per week, t>e given an increase of 10/, and asked for authority to revise other salaries when authority to restore the cuts was received. Oflice salaries, added Mr. Park, must be paid from the incidental allowances. In 1930 these totalled £0240 and in 1934 £4051. Of the allowance i cleaning absorbed between £000 and £700, office salaries and expenses about £700. heating and lighting £410 and materials about £1500. The restoration of the cuts, it was esti- | mated, would add £250 to the incidental revenue, hut additional cleaning j costs were likely to absorb most of that amount. It was possible that unnecessary increases of expenses in the latter , connection might necessitate a reduc--1 tion in the materials provided, and that ' would mean that the efficiency of the | work for the pupils would be reduced.

The principal's recommendations were approved.

A report "by a special committee on the question of cleaning was considered in committee and was referred back to the committee with power to make suggested adjustments in wages. The committee was also authorised to obtain estimates of tne cost of a chute to carry rubbish from each floor to the 'basement. It was agreed to co-operate with the New Zealand Technical School Teachers' Association in its proposal to hold a conference of trades instructors ill Auckland in the spring.