BANK CLERKS' TROUBLES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 659, 9 November 1909, Page 5

BANK CLERKS' TROUBLES.

LOCAL DISCONTENT. r SALARIES AND OTHER MATTERS. ( It appears that, discontent among i/ bank derks is not confined to Sydney and Auckland, file complaints mentioned by The Dominion's spdcial correspondent in the latter c>"tj wore for the most pait endorsed by an evbank clerL. of 'Wclhngtoii in .a conversation with a representative of this journal. He confirmed the statements that numbers of good men had l been leaving some or the banks, and that the porsonnol of tho sorvico had been deteriorating. So Btrong had this tendency become that as a means of checking it the BCalo of pay for cadets had beon raised within tho last two jears. Before that a cadet started at,,£4B a vear, and his increases were ilO a year, but tho increases now were .£2O a year. The clerk who was interviewed at Auckland said. "A man may reach .£IOO in four years, and it may take him ten or tivclve i yeirs loiger to reach X 200." Our Wellington informant considered that tho statement might nave boSn put more strongly. Ho said that iii/ at least ono 'bank tho average man onlv reached .£2OO a year after 10 to 20 years' service. Tho same bank did not treat its country managers on the scale mentioned by the Auckland clerk. Instead of receiving a house allowance, each country manager had to pay rent lortnp residential premises attached i. to tho baiu, even if he did. not use thorn. Ine statement that "salaries bear 'absolutely no relation to seniority, competence, responsibility or anything else," seemed to him exaggerated, though not altogether Unfounded Ho ri«l,t n v. ' S if w , Pron>ot">ns "olid increases could bo allotted except by the discretion of the inspector, aided V {he advice *of tho lZl? m ?W s He agreed that the men Tvorking at headquarters had the best chances . as awfs HEARTS AND PURSES. , (By Telegraph -Special Correspondent) mm.