PAYMENT BY RESULTS
BONDS FOR RAILWAYMEN SYSTEM IN AUSTRALIA (From Our Resident Reporter.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. After observing the premium bonus system of payment in connection with the railways in Australia, Mr. E. T. Spidy, Deputy-Chief Mechanical Engineer, has returned to New Zealand with the impression that the system produces satisfactory results. The scheme which operates in New South Wales, he says, is exactly similar to that proposed for the New Zealand Railways, and from his observation of its working in that State it should prove gf benefit to the individual operator here, even though the unions object to it on principle. On the Victorian Railways the system of payment by results is the guaranteed piecework plan, and from what could be gathered in the Commonwealth this also was working quite satisfactorily. In every State the labour-saving devices had been elaborately worked out, and short-cut methods were the order of procedure. In the workshops this was particularly apparent, and Mr. Spidy’s opinion is that as a result of the visit the New Zealand Railways authorities will learn much as to what not to' do—chiefly at the expense of the Australian system.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 19, 13 April 1927, Page 3
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