SALARIES INCREASED

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 56, Issue 32913, 24 September 1947, Page 7

SALARIES INCREASED

POWER BOARD OFFICIALS DISCUSSION BY THE BOARD Following a lengthy discussion in committee, the Thames Valley Electric Power Board decided at its September meeting to grant increases in the salaries of the secretary-manager, the chief engineer, the assistantengineer, and several other officials. Formerly the salaries of the manager and chief engineer were equal at £034, but the finance committee of the board in discussing the question, said Mr H. L. Houghton had taken into consideration among other factors a recommendation by an engineers’ organisation that secretary-managers of power boards should be paid more than chief engineers. The committee had recommended that the new scale should be £ll5O per annum for the secretary-manager and £lO5O per annum for the chief engineer. Exception was taken to the differentiation between the two officers after they had been on the same salary scale almost since the inception of the board by Messrs C. C. Webb and W. C. Kennedy, Who considered that both officers should be on the same salary, whatever it might be in the future. When an amendment to that effect was moved by Mr Kennedy, a vote was taken, being defeated, and the original motion approving the finance committee’s recommendations was carried, Messrs T. A. Barrett, A. A. McCollum, W. A. Clark and H. L. Boughton voting for the motion with the chairman, Mr J. F. Mayn, and Messrs Kennedy, Webb, J. Pohlen and O. W. Marks against. An increase in the salary of the assistant-engineer from £650 to £7OO was also approved, as well as several smaller increases granted to other members of the staff to remove anomalies.