POST AND TELEGRAPH.
OFFICERS’ CONFERENCE. Per Press Association. Wellington, May 16. The Post and Telegraph Officers’ ; Conference opened this morning. The president, in his address, pointed out that over six hundred members had gone on active service. He hoped that no attempt would be liiade to fill the vacancies by under-paid girls, as appeared to be the policy, judging from advertisements calling for applications from women willing to ho trained as telegraphists at a salai.v commencing at CIO lower than the hoys. THREE RESOLUTIONS. ,■ . -i' >l * Wellington May 17. Tlie:.following resolutions were passed by the conference a That it is absolutely necessary with the enormous hWease 1 iff ', the cost of living ‘that a war ’bonus granted to officers; that the Government he urged to impose drastic taxation on war profits; that the jPost and Telegraph'Act be amended so as*to allow officers augmenting their incomes by accepting outside .employment to meet the extra cost of living, provided their departmental duties do not suffer.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 36, 17 May 1916, Page 2
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163POST AND TELEGRAPH. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 36, 17 May 1916, Page 2
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