POSTS AND TELEGRAPHS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16505, 5 August 1919, Page 4

POSTS AND TELEGRAPHS.

CONFERENCE OF ASSOCIATION. For Press Association. WELLINGTON, August 4. Tho conference of the Post and Telegraph Officers' Association to-day considered about 00 remit-, from various branches, covering the opinions of the service regarding the now salary schedules. Tno following resolution was carried; “That this conference submits, on the following grounds, that the reclassification, as disclosed by tho classification list recently issued, is not satisfactory; (a) That it has not provided fixed increases to all pre-war maxima to ■ cover the increased cost of living that har> been accepted as_ a fair basis of reclassification by the Public Service Commissioner and tho Railway Department; (b) that insufficient effort has been made to differentiate between officers on the ground of superior ability or lack of ability; (c) that tho guarantee of minimum salaryafter completion of the training period of five- years (exclusive of tho telcgiaph messenger service) has not been given effect to; (d) that tho consequential effect of failure to embody the principle of this guarantee has born la leave officers with considerable service beyond the messenger stage in the position where they cannot do justice to the needs of their dependents should they he married or to assume the full rights of manhood and set up homes for themselves should they he single; (c) that many of the officers in the general division with shorter service and performing lower grade duties have been allotted bettor f.alarics than clerical division officers of longer service who are performing efficiently higher grade duties.