RAILWAY OFFICERS.
ANNUAL CONFERENCE HELD. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, June 13. At the annual conference of (he New Zealand Railway Olliccrs' Institute, il was decided to draw the attention of the Government to l In.' low rate of interest earned by the railway superannuation fund and to urge that the fund be invested to better advantage ll ivna agreed that for excess time worked payment should be made instead of time off, as at present, and that special rates of pay for night work bo pressed for,
Ihe question of house rents was discussed at length, and it was resolved that the whole question of rentals be brought before the department and that rentals should bo reduced in accordance with the cut that has been made in salaries since January Ist last, on the principle of a day's pay for a week's rent. Other decisions were arrived at in regard to the erection of houses where required, and supplying electric light to departmental tenants where such light is available.
A North Canterbury remit, that members of the institute should be debarred from acting as Appeal Board advocates for nonmembers and unfinancial members of the institute, met with little favour, and wad almost unanimously rejected.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 423, 14 June 1922, Page 5
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204RAILWAY OFFICERS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 423, 14 June 1922, Page 5
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