DEFICITS RISING
South Africa Facing Lean Period RETRENCHMENT MOVE By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. Cape Town, February 3. The Government is planning drastic retrenchment in the Public Service in view of the mounting deficits. The Railway Conciliation Board has been summoned to consider proposals to save £500,000, including a reduction in piecework bonus to artisans by'so per cent.; or, alternatively, a reduction in hours per week to forty-four, both involving a quarter of a million; reduction in overtime rates, injury on duty compensation, compulsory retirement of artisans at 55 years, and dismissal of temporary casual workers. The working day is to be lengthened throughout the Public Service by half an hour. A big copper mine at Bwana, Northern Rhodesia, closed to-day. Two hundred Europeans and two thousand natives were dismissed. Despite a record volume of traffic, goods carried reaching a total of 22,514,000 tons, against 22,038,000 tons for the preceding twelve months, the South African railways, harbours, and steamships showed a deficit of £394,968 last financial year.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 112, 5 February 1931, Page 11
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