P. AND T. EMPLOYEES

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 15, 8 October 1929, Page 6

P. AND T. EMPLOYEES

the salaries question

’ AtiCELAND, Oct. 7. At the annual reunion of the Auckland Postmen’s Welfare Club on Saturday night the Hon. J B. Donald said “One receives many knocks as. a Postmaster-General and they mi use one to wonder whether the game is worth the candle. It is such functions as these that- quieten such a feeling. ‘ The Minister said that ho and the.pep hiauont heads of the Department bad interests of employees at Heart, and would do their best lor them.

Replying to an interview, when an increase in salary would be made, Mr Donald said: “Nothing would_ please me better than to be able to give it. 1 will not bq favourable to a reduction in the telephone charges until it, comes about. I have been hauled over the coals by certain members of Parliament who consider that there should be a reduction in the charges. I will

~;\*c uiv reply when the Estimates are before the House. ‘When the question of a. rise in salaries comes up, I will do mv best to obtain it.”

'Tim Minister said that, the present year was a regrading, year. Heveaal '-a listers would ,bo made. Ho trusted that these would please the staff. B was now possible, for officers of the Department ’■> transfer to other Depart meats and those who felt they could improve their prospect;- by so doing could .apply;- . ■