RAILWAY SERVICE.
STAFF RETRENCHMENTS, / Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, June 7. "It appears inevitable that there will be further reductions of staffs, at railway workshops,” said the General Manager of Railways,*(Mr E. Casey) when he confirmed this afternoon reports that a-shortening of staff was proposed. So far the dismissals had totalled 80, said Mr Casey. The workshops affected were Hillside, "Addington and Hutt. No retrenchments had taken place at Otahuhu. The dismissals had been .necessary because of the call to conserve the financial resources of the countrv for sterling purposes and the impossibility of obtaining material for new construction 'work. "We arc going into the matter of. further, reductions, at- oresent,” . said the General .Manager. "Traffic lias kept up to such an extent that there has been no. necessity to reduce the number of employees in the traffic departments. The running of "trains requires men trained to carry out the safety regulations, and as more’than 1100 men in the railway service, including quite a number from the workshops, have enlisted, tlie reductions of staff in those branches had not been needed.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 162, 8 June 1940, Page 6
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180RAILWAY SERVICE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 162, 8 June 1940, Page 6
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