RAILWAY EFFICIENCY

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 95, 17 January 1924, Page 6

RAILWAY EFFICIENCY

OPPORTUNITIES FOR KEEN MEN MINISTERIAL STATEMENT “It is perfectly true that the rule that Civil servants with 40 years’ service must retire is being strictly enforced in the railway service,” said the Minister of Railways, the Hon. J. G. Coates, at Dargaville on Monday (reports the “New Zealand Herald”!. ‘‘Authority was given me by the Cabinet to enforce the rule as I saw fit. The principle is already in force and I propose applying it rigidly. Soma officers have already received their notices, their engagement terminating three months after their receipt. Certain of the higher posts in the service have already been vacated. The matter of successors has been arranged, but I have not yet received the necessary appointment warrants for the Cabinet’s approval and signature. “The General Manager of Railways and myself have decided on certain measures of reorganisation. Ono is to brim- the traffic branch, under the management branch. With regard to resignations. I reserve the right to retain'certain men on the administrative side These exemptions will be few. however, as it is desired to give every opportunity for keen men to secure ■promotion.”