IN NEW QUARTERS

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 256, 25 July 1936, Page 8

IN NEW QUARTERS

Pensions Department Moving TASK OF MAGNITUDE' The transferring of the head office of the Pensions Department to its new offices in Jervois Quay is a work of magnitude. Lorries stacked high with records have been seen daily since Monday leaving the offices of the Government Buildings annex occupied by the Pensions Department for so many years for the department’s new premises. This work will continue next week. “State departments are chary about losing or destroying their records.” said the Minister of Pensions, Hon. W. E. Parry, yesterday. “The most junior cadet in the Public Service quickly learns all that it means to his department to lose track of a record. In the administration of a State office any oldtime file is likely to be wanted as a first and urgent matter in a day’s operations. That fact is-instilled so deeply into the minds of the staff that there can be no wonder at the care taken in removing the pensions records to the new offices. Altogether there are about 200,000 records of pensions matters to be shifted and filed in their proper place in the new premises so that they can be quickly obtained when wanted. The staff are working in the transfer now being effected with the knowledge that in snite of the difficulties to them which the shift means, they will enjoy better working- conditions than they have had in the past.”