RAILWAYMAN'S PAY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1575, 19 October 1912, Page 7

RAILWAYMAN'S PAY.

INCREASES TOTAL £45,000. £6000 FOR THE FIRST DIVISION.' NEW SCALE . BEGINS APRIL 1.. Schedules of salaries and wages for employees of the New Zealand Railway Service are set i'orlli in tho Government luuiways Aniendmeut Bill, introduced in the House of Representatives last cven- "'(?• • The classification list (133) will, tho Minister for Railways stated, bo brought down next week, Replying to questions on the introduction ol'the Bill, tile jMinister said that the increases for tho First. Division were as.fur as ho could go,at the present time, 'l'hey would amount to between ,£SOOO ami i£GOOO for tho First Division tho first year, ami to. »E3!),()00 for the Second Division. lie gave notico that, on Tuesday, lie would movo tlio second reading of tho Bill, pro forma, with the objeot' of referring it to tho Railways Committee. The increases are to come into operation on April 1, 1913. _ Considerable increases have been made in the management position. The salary of the general manager is raised to "not exceeding ~£3000." The maximum under the present classification is JJ1250, which is the salary now drawn by tho present general manager. The salary for tho cliitif clerkship,' for which the present maximum of is now being paid, has been raised to ,£SOO, with annual increments of ,£SO to ,£OOO. The slime increase to ,£BOO-,£9(10 lias been made in the salary of the oliief mechanical engineer. No addition is proposed in the cases of the chief trafiic manager and the chief cngineef in charge of maintenance branch. The maximum for the chief accountantship is raised by .£SO to ,£750. Tho position of "comptroller of stores" has been added to the branch . management offices with a salary of .£6OO, and, one increment to .£650. It is apparently 111 plucc of the position of stores manager, for which •£525 is now paid. The classification of 'tho salaried staff of the I'irst Division is changed from ten grades to eleven. The salaries, increments, 'and sub-grades of grades one to four remain unaltered.

The following are the proposed minima aiul maxima for'each of the other grades with, particulars of .the increments, and in parentheses the present extremes of each grade:—Grade six (three sub-grades), .£330 to '.£355, one of: ,£ls, and one of .£lO (,£315 to .£355); grade seven (threo subgrades), .£285 to .£'3ls, two of <£15 (.£260 to i:300); grada eight (three sub-grades), .£255 to. .£275, two of <£10 (,£2to to ,£255); grade uiue (three sub-grades), .£215 to .£245), two. of JEIS. (J!210 to .£220); grado ten (seven sub-grades), .£125. to .£2OO, one of ,£lO, three of Jils, two ot .£lO (.£l2O to J!200); grade eleven (fivo sub-grades), ,£SO to .£11(1, four of ,£ls.

The Kill provides for the minimum of" Bs. per day in the Second Division, authonsed~by the Ward Government, and already in'operation.. An .increaso of sixpence per day is proposed for the following classes of workers, and in cases particularised tlio increase is Olio shilling per day. - The pay for ■ classes not mentioned remains tho eame as at present. ; Class one, traffic and stores, crane-drivers (both grades), labourers (increase Is.), porters (iticreaso Is.), and junior porters. Class two, locomotive, sub-class one (all grades), subclass two, grade one only, sub-class three, junior tradesmen (increase Is.); sub-class four, grado two. only sub-class five, both grades sub-class- six, furnnce-mou and helpers, grade ' two only, sub-class seven, labourers (leading), labourers (skilled), labourers (Is. increase); sub-class eight, senior engine-drivers (new grade), Ms. to las., firemen (both grades), wash-out men, etc. ■ (both grades), sub-oluss !), train examiners and litters, grade one (increase Is.), grade two (increase Gd.), coal-men (both grades Is. increase). Class 3, maintenance: Sub-class one, sub-class two. (both grades), v sub-class three, grade one (25.. .increase),'sub-class 'five (grado one only), sub-class six _(ls. increase),., sub-class, seyen,'.sub-class .eight (both grades)! . sub-class .nine, "storfihen, 10s.' and strikers "(botK' : grades), sub-class eleven (both grades), sub-class 12, platelayers, surfae.Mnen, : miners, sur-fsice-men ~(ls;' increase), juniors, sub-class 13. : fencers '(Is. increase), sub-class 14, labourers (grade one only Is. increase), sub-class 10, electric line men, grade one (Is. increase), grado two (sixpence), elec-tric-line ercctors (other than leading hands). The scalo of pay for apprentices in tho locomotive and maintenance branch is raised to the following:—First year,' 25.; second, 2s. Gd.; third, 35.; fourth, 4s. ; fifth, 'ss. Cd. The Government Railways Amendment Bill was introduced by Governor's message yesterday, read a -first'time, and read a second time pro forma.-