ECONOMIES DEMANDED
ENGINEER TO REDUCE STAFF. WANGANUI CITY COUNCIL ACTS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wanganui, Last Night. The Wanganui City Council has decided to make economies in the engineer’s administrative staff in keeping with the reductions in labour on outdoor work, but instead of being dismissed straight out the men will be offered work in the department other than that in the office. It was stated at a meeting to-night that the greatest number of men the council had ever employed was in 1927, yet the cost of administration was no lower now. The engineer reported to a special committee recently that he could see no way of effecting economies, but the council to-night ruled otherwise, instructing him to submit proposals showing how adjustments could be made which would effect a saving in his administrative staff of £lOOO a year. The council also decided that if it were considered necessary the engineer would be relieved immediately of his duties as tramway engineer, though at the same time the council expressed every confidence in his work.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 June 1930, Page 7
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