SALARY ANOMALIES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22823, 2 September 1937, Page 16

SALARY ANOMALIES

TALENTED MEN GO OVERSEASSURVEYOR'S COMMENT [by telegraph—ow:s' correspondent] "WELLINGTON. Wednesday "Your council views with mixed feelings the fact that a large number of its younger members aro forced to obtain an outlet for their talents overseas," said the president of tho New Zealand Institute of Surveyors, Mr. C. K. Grierson, in his report to the annual meeting of that body at Wellington.

"It is proud that the reputation of its members is such that overseas services and companies are seeking their enrolment, but regrets that many of its brightest men aro being lost to the country .that has trained them.

" Such a state of affairs will continue to exist," said Mi\ Grierson, " just so long as their own country refuses recognise the value of their services and classes them, in terms of salary, on a lower basis, in many instances, than the men they direct. Your council deplores the existence of a system which permits the payment of less than a labourer's wage to young men who have by years of hard study fitted themselves for executive positions." Mr. Grierson added that the council had drawn the attention of the department concerned to certain salary anomalies, which tho department had promised to investigate and rectify where found necessary.