P. AND T. CONFERENCE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2775, 19 May 1916, Page 6

P. AND T. CONFERENCE

YESTERDAY'S PROCEEDINGS.

At the Post and Telegraph Officers' Conference yesterday, the iollowing resolutions were passed:— lhat the officer who is the sole support of a widow mother should be placed on the same footing as the married officer. That in view of the qualifications 'demanded and responsibility of duties, conference is of opinion that officers of the engineering branch who have passed the exclusive list of professional examinations at present required', , are insufficiently paid.: Conference , urges that all permanent first grade linemen be allowed to proceed to a maximum of .£2OO per annum, and that tho minimum of the second ijrade. be <£156 per annum. That the maximum of mechanics and artisans be raised to <£200 by, regular annual increments. Conference regrets that the powers provided by regulation 74 have fallen into abeyance,-and asks that temporary linemen', with two years' servife or more, be given an opportunity of being placed on the permanent staff. That casual employees who prove themselves efficient be granted an iucreaso after twelve "months' scrvice. That junior linemen should be assigned duty under duly classified linemen only, and that both junior linemen and apprentices generally should receive instruction in their trades by skilled .workers, so that at the end of their apprenticeship they should be fully qualified tradesmen.