RAILWAY CLERK'S APPEAL.
UNANIMOUSLY ALLOWED. CBt Telerraph—Press Association.) Auckland, March 8. At a sitting of tho Itailway Appeal Bonrd to-day, B. Harrison (tonth grado, first division), clerk in tho oflico of the Inspector of Permanent Way at Newniarket, appealed against tho withholding of his annual increaso in salary. Mr. A. 11. Blackburno, chief clerk in tho District Engineer's office, stated that ho did not consider that the work appellant was doing was worth nioro than ho was receiving. The chairman, in announcing the decision of tho hoard, said it would bo n highly dangerous precedent if the hoard endorsed the right of the Department to suv that a certain position was worth only so much money, If (his right wero established, a man might bo kept at certain work for a considerable period, niul refused an increase of salary. In tho present case appellant's former experience of outside, work was calculated to render his services as clerk more vnlnnblo. Tho appeal was unanimously nllovrcd.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1384, 9 March 1912, Page 4
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164RAILWAY CLERK'S APPEAL. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1384, 9 March 1912, Page 4
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