DOMINION TELEGRAMS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 13, 7 September 1912, Page 2

DOMINION TELEGRAMS.

RAILWAY CLASSIFICATION. (Per Press Association.) Dunedin, September 6. At a meeting of the executive committee of the Railway Officers’ Institute to-night the report of the Public Service Commission on Classification was adversely commented on, ©specially the statement that the Commissioner had found the general opinion strongly against the classification schemes in force in the Railway and Post and Telegraph Departments. It was stated that the feeling amongst railway officers was that it would be a great mistake to interfere with the present method of classifying the staff, and that if the Act were properly administered there would ho no necessity for alteration, as ample provision was made for promotion by merit in preference to seniority. Classification had, it was stated, largely checked promotion by departmental favouritism.

THE MIDLAND RAILWAY

Hokitika, September G. At a public meeting held this evening, a resolution was passed urging upon the Government the necessity of pushing on the completion of the Ot’.ra. tunnel, thereby connecting the East and West Coasts. It was pointed out that to date approximately £300,00C had been expended in piercing the mountain and about one million pounds on the railway between Jackson and Springfield, and that the railway was only earning a small amount compared with what it would when the railway was completed.

SCHOOL COMMITTEE RESIGNS. Invercargill, September G. The Education Board to-day decided to ask the Middle School Committee, which resigned as a protest against the Board’s refusal to supply a copy of the finding of a commission of enquiry into the dispute between the headmaster and the first assistant, to reconsider its decision. The Board contended that the committee acted hastily and injudiciously, pointing out that the enquiry was not held at the instance of the committee.