RAILWAY OFFICERS’ INSTITUTE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 July 1925, Page 3

RAILWAY OFFICERS’ INSTITUTE.

CONSULTS MINISTER AND RAILWAY BOARD. SERIES OF DEMANDS PRESENTED WELLINGTON, Last Night, Headed, by Messrs J. R. Robinson and V. J. R. Stanley, over twenty delegates from the Railway Officers’ Institute met the Prime Minister and members of the Railway Board of. Control in conference to-day. Conversations took place both in the morning and afternoon and an understanding was reached on several points. The Institute brought up a large number of matters. It asked that permanent casuals of 60 years of age and over whose services were dispensed with without fault on their part, should be granted retiring leave on full pay for a period not exceeding six or eight weeks .according to their length of service. The scale of salaries presented to the Department in 1924, which provides for general increases in every grade, was asked for and the abolishment of overlapping grades. The delegates requested another holiday for members of the first division to compensate for the Withdrawal of Dominion Day as a statutory holiday. Other requests were that members of grade seven should be promoted to grade six on the completion of 14 years’ service in the first division, that members of grade'seven should receive similar treatment in the matter of increases as men in the higher sub-grades, that casuals employed in the commercial branch should not be appointed to the place of any member on the classification list, that the classification list should be issued as early as the lists of the Post and Telegraph Department, and the Public Service, and that the regulations providing that a member should forfeit his right of promotion for two years when he declined to accept promotion, should be cancelled. In the afternoon, the delegates had a separate conference with the Board of Management (Messrs F. Jones, H. H. Sterling and A. W. Mouat). As the remits had been received by the Board only that morning, the delegates were allowed to state them and were promised consideration.