RAILWAY EYESIGHT TESTS
Mr. El. Langstone (Waimarino) is asking the Minister of Railways, whether, in view of the fact, that .the Railway Department is submitting its permanent employees to a strict eyesight test which numbers are failing to pass, he will see that no reduction in grades, salaries, or future increments and promotions will take place so far as those employees are concerned. "First-grade'guards with long service and many years of night work ,in badly lighted vans whose eyesight has become impaired through giving loyal 'and valuable service to the Department," says Mr. Langstone, "are being given indoor work or filling less responsible positions, and their wages have been re-, duced, while younger men with less service graded as second-grade guards, "who have passed' tho eyesight test, are doing the work formerly done by first-grade guards, but receive no increase in wages for such work."
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 63, 11 September 1924, Page 5
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145RAILWAY EYESIGHT TESTS Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 63, 11 September 1924, Page 5
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