FIGHT OF ITS LIFE
P. AND T. DEPARTMENT
PESSIMISTIC FORECAST STATEMENT BY SECRETARY (By Telegraph—Press Association) WELLINGTON, This Day! An improvement equal to 2 per cent, in the general business of the Post and Telegraph Department for the last three months was announced by the Secretary, Mr McNamara, last evening. Looking at the figures, he said, he saw a little shadow of hope, but it was so thin that it could hardly be called even a shadow. The department, he said, was having the fight of its life, and there was nothing to indicate to the staff anything that was promising in the slightest way.
NEW SCHEDULES TRAVELLING ALLOWANCES AND OVERTIME WELLINGTON, This Day. A new schedule of travelling allowances for officers of the Post and Telegraph Department is published in the “Gazette” tonight. The new scale rises from 12s a day for officers receiving a salary up to £342 per annum to 18s a day for officers whose salaries exceed £SOB 10s. A schedule giving the rates of overtime payment is also published as follows: Officers whose salinies are from £342 to £423, new rate 3s an hour: £266 10s to £342, new rate 2s 8d; £216 to £265 10s, new rate 2s 3d; £162 to £216, new rate Is 9d; not exceeding £162, new rate Is 4d; message boys 7d.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 7 August 1931, Page 4
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222FIGHT OF ITS LIFE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 7 August 1931, Page 4
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