NEW GRADING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 220, 17 September 1938, Page 12

NEW GRADING.

POSTAL OFFICIALS.

APPEALS IN AUCKLAND.

BOARD'S DOMINION TOUR.

To hear appeals against the reclassification scale covering employees of the Post and Telegraph Department, which was announced some months ago, the P. and T. Appeal Board will sit in Auckland next week. The revision was the most comprehensive ever carried out in the service, and the increases in salaries were made retrospective to April 1, 1037.

"As occurs in every reclassification, there were numerous anomalies," laid Mr. S. Mather, secretary of the Auckland section of the I'. and T. Employees' Association, to-day. "The association has been sucivssful in having some of these adjusted, but a number of individual cases of non-promotion have been referred for consideration by the Appeal Board." . Nearly 2500 promotions for the wholeDominion were made in the new scale, he added, and many officers, some of whom had long records of service in the Department, found themselves superseded as a result of the decisions of the Promotions Board. They would have an opportunity of submitting their positions to the Appeal Board, and would be assisted by an official of the employee's' organisation. Mr. Mather stated that the service was due for reclassification in 1034, but owing to the depression the changes were postponed." The Appeal Boar£ romincnced its work in Dunedin early last month, and has completed all the hearings in the South Inland. North Island cases have been dealt with'in Wellington (a portion only), Wnnganui. New Plymouth, Hamilton and Whangnrei. In anticipation of the Auckland sittings, the board arrived from last night. The chairman k Mr. H. A. Young, S.M.. and the members are Mr. (i. A. Wilkes, representing officers on the telegraph side of the service; Mr. A. Robertson, representing the postal side; and Mr. R. I. Allan, representing the Department The case for the Department will be presented to the board by a senior official of the General Poet Office, Wellington.

After being in Auckland for several days, the board will proceed to East Coast towns, and will conclude its sittings in Wellington.