BANK CLERKS AND THE WAR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16098, 11 December 1915, Page 4

BANK CLERKS AND THE WAR.

When Mr. Beauchamp, the chairman of directors of the Bank of New Zealand, stated the other day in Wellington that the bant had guaranteed the full pay to members of their staff who had enlisted, and that thereby the bank was contributing £20,000 to the patriotic funds it was hardly a fair way of putting it* considering that those of their staff who were left behind, and many of whom wore refused leave to go, had to do all the work of the absent members, without th ® 4 J*" 13 reaU v the &AI.UUO contribution is theirs. Although not connected myself with any bank, either personally or by relatives, I know their staffs to be a very loyal class of workers who do not grudge the extra labour, although it is verv severe. Some men I know have not returned to their homes for many months past, being kept by work at the bank until after midnieht and have sometimes even worked on Sundays. On occasions there are some who have worked all night long without a rest or wink of sleep, and without, as I have said, any extra remuneration or even an allowance for tea money beyond the 5s each granted at the half yearly balance that tie cWnan^f the Bank of New Zealand should lay the "naWm OT - Ctlots ■? H' B ' palm am qui meruit ferat. T J S