RAILWAY SERVICE
iSHORTER HOURS, MORE PAY
MINISTER'S HOPES
(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. A hope that tliev would see the railwaymen giving a lead in the establishment- of a 40-hour week was expressed by the Hon. D. G. Sullivan, the Minister of Railways, in a speech at the jubilee dinner of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants.
The Minister also expressed" a hope that the whole of the cuts made would be restored.
Mr. R. W. McVilly, a former general manager of the railways, who was also present at the dinner, said it had been felt that the railway service had not had the support it should have had in the fight it had been making.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18962, 12 March 1936, Page 4
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117RAILWAY SERVICE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18962, 12 March 1936, Page 4
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