TRAMWAYS EXPENDITURE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 45, 21 August 1908, Page 5

TRAMWAYS EXPENDITURE.

COST OF WAGE BETTERMENTS.

It ivestimated that the increases of > payeither granted or to 'be granted to cor- ' poration employees in connection withy the Wellington tramways will necessistate an extra expenditure of £1890 per j <annum. The increased salaries granted j to the electrical staff by last night's < meeting- of the council will total £599u -per annum, made up of individual in- > Tanging from £5 to £25 p"erJ jannum. Those for ther general body -of--] pempioyees^ — tramway conductors, motor- j .men, mechanics, and labourers— will' in- j ?vol^b an extra annual expenditure of I .£2300 if the City Council authorise the ' ijtßoreases which have been agreed upon..! /in conferences between the council's 1 ' -tramways committee and the repfesenta- v 'tives of' the Tramway Employees' In-J •dustrial Union of Workers. I It must be explained that thought the i /electrical staff's salaries, as a whole, are ] .to be increased by £590, a vote of .only, j £50 is necessary for this purpose,r4be- j cause a sum of about £540 is to *bs£ saved in internal economies. |