RESPONSIBLE WORK

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 16, 9 April 1927, Page 16

RESPONSIBLE WORK

HANDLING REGISTERED LETTERS The following information is elicit 6l ■at the recent session of the L° nc *' Civil Service Industrial Court when J increase in- the wages of sorters applied for:— • Over 2,000,000 registered passed every year through the c i office alone. All registered articles were tran. ferred from officer to officer nature, and the utmost rigidi > maintained in the observation - numerous standing regulations down. j., “The correspondence for the * ,j ing world,” he said, 'l* at this point, and packets w notes, cheques and negotiant - rency are dealt with on this “ ' „ “Many of these Packets coa A money to the value oi * .j-tha' o £IO,OOO, and mistreatment migm serious consequences.” oT i One of the features of tne j; . Mr. Hodgson observed, was xj. crease of the foreign postal in size and complexity. v . It was necessary for have a ployed in the foreign section to wide knowledge of the world. fi The staff was moved as Continental, Brazil, American, dian, India, China, Austra l* , ,- i?f Zealand, South Africa, Y est and other divisions. . a id The sorting was very conoPJ® , p frequently changed. The op n <w of a railway, the development 0 f territory, the rearrangeroe national boundaries, the de\ of industry, and so on, led to alterations in circulation. I