RAILWAYS DEPT, HAS SERIOUS
PROBLEM IN STAFFING The serious staffing position in th? Wellington district was revealed toda; when the district traffic manager mplicxl for ‘he postponement of military service by two guards assistant? Heard before the Military Postponement Committee, the application concerned Hilton John Maunder and Terence John Reagan. The traffic staff was 41 below strength at Wellington, and th” distric’ was 272 men below strength, said Mr W. Wro th, railways staff officer. The station staff at Wellington was working an average of 551 hours a week, and ticket porters were workig a 56-hour week of two and sometimes three shifts. Arrears of annual leave at the beginning of the ye-.r for the traffic dis rict were 14 922 daye..| and by December 31 would bo 30 0001 days. The committee adjourned both ap-l plications sine die.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 21 December 1950, Page 4
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