ON THE MOVE
RAILWAY MEN TRANSFERRED CHANGE OF WORKSHOPS. L Special "Chronicle” Service ] WELLINGTON, July 4. Next month will see the first big move of railwaymen necessitated by the new policy of workshop specialisation, stated Mr E. T. Spidy, Superintendent of Workshops, to-day. The change conies in the South Island, where a policy of gradual conversion of the old shops is being pursued, in contradistinction to the entirely new shops which are being built in the North Island, and the first transfers will be of men to the car shops at Addington and the locomotive shops at Hillside. Already some of the men'ore moving tiicir homes and the whole thing will be completed in August. After that other moves will be made as the work progresses, and the new shops are expected to be staffed with the full complement by about March or April of next year, when the contractors will have completed their task. In the North Island the shops are going ahead fast and big changes will be made in the next two months.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20190, 5 July 1928, Page 8
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176ON THE MOVE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20190, 5 July 1928, Page 8
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