GENERAL POST FOR RAILWAY WORKERS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 219, 15 September 1928, Page 7

GENERAL POST FOR RAILWAY WORKERS

NEW WORKSHOPS WILL BE READY SOON [ Special “Chronicle” Service ] WELLINGTON, Sept. 14. Big changes in the railway staffs of a dozen places are now imminent because of the fact that the two North Island workshops, at Otahuhu and Lower Hutt, are now rapidly nearly completion. Within the next month the work on these shops will have reached the final stages, stated Mr E. T. Spidy, Superintendent of Workshops to the Department, to-day. Two the Wellington shops are now practically finished, and the remaining seven have yet to be floored with bitumen over the concrete, which is already laid. Reticulation work is being pushed ahead and electric, air, gas and water lines are going in fast, and provided that the rail connections and roads are all installed, Lower Hutt should be practically finished within the month.

The new Auckland shops are even more advanced and the next fortnight should sec them shipshape. A total of 826 men, from Auckland to Invercargill, are involved in the transfers, which arc about to begin in earnest. Such places at Greymouth, Wanganui, Napier, Invercargill and Feilding are affected, for there the old shops will be closed and the work centralised. Complete reorganisation of the method of working is necessary and the next problem following that will be to speed up production.