NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19527, 9 July 1925, Page 10

NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS.

WORK OF REORGANISATION

ministerial statement.

ADDRESS TO OFFICERS’

CONFERENCE,

(Per United Press Association.) WEUANGTON, July 8. The SfiSrfte cers’ Conference was the Hon. J W that the Minister or .Kauway*;, railways idea of the reorganisation of the si •33S to £ though it meant the 1«« °[ v Hie v w t n many cases, yot it °P en ®V . . Ivenues of promotion and encouraged mitiati”d such a policy had beenofbenrfH They wanted to encourage, me f, to themselves competent, i;r_ p .i I~m 1 ~ m of examination and merit quahfy selves for the highest positions m the sor V 'mV Coates also referred to the to the department and officers of tnps atW to study the latest methods. In order to remedy the effects of New Zealnd’s isolation, it had been necessary, as a matter of expediency, to bring m officers from outside. He did not like this as a matter of policy, though it had boon essential. He aid not propose to do it m and hie idea was that. offiepre should be sent abroad fairly continually to keep m touch with the methods elsewhere. The Minister foretold the issue of a departmental journal to inform all men of the progress m respect to rodway matters. Tliero would also be a complete overhaul of the system of staff control to discover the best possible system.