VEHICLE INSPECTION
£I,OOO FOR EQUIPMENT WAGE RATES FOR SUNDAY DUTY TRAMWAYS LOADED WITH HEAVY COSTS [Pee United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, February 12. Decisions to limit the number of vehicles licensed to carry goods to 500, to place £SO on the estimates for a loud-speaker equipment for traffic control, and to spend not more than £I,OOO on equipment required for vehicle inspection were made by the Wolhhgf oll City Council. „ Additional costs amounting to £6,000 a year have been loaded on the Wellington Corporation tramways as a result of the council’s adoption of the wage rates for tramwaymen engaged on Sunday duty. The council fixed the rate for motormen at 4s lOd an hour, and conductors at 4g Bid, the men to work shifts of 10 hours every third Sunday, so that the rates will be £2 8s 4d and £2 7s Id respectively. The new rates are retrospective to July 1, 1936.
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Evening Star, Issue 22571, 12 February 1937, Page 8
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152VEHICLE INSPECTION Evening Star, Issue 22571, 12 February 1937, Page 8
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