P. AND T. EMPLOYEES MEET IN CONFERENCE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 121, 12 August 1927, Page 7

P. AND T. EMPLOYEES MEET IN CONFERENCE

DEPUTATION TO MR. COATES Press Association. WELLINGTON, Thursday. Since August 2 employees in the Post and Telegraph Department have had their delegates sitting in conference at Wellington and have, in that time, put through a great amount of work. All parts of the Dominion are well represented. The amount of work transacted can be gauged from the fact that no fewer than 72 remits were dealt with. The president, Mr. J. T. Carr, presided, and there were over thirty delegates present. Perhaps the chief interest of the conference centred around the question of salaries which, under the present scale of living, were Weld to be quite inadequate, and not so good as in prewar days. It was said that if 100 points were taken as representing the earlier period, 72 points would represent it today. A deputation from the conference met the Prime Minister to place the facts before him. He reminded them of Sir James Parr’s promise that when the Post and Telegraph Department showed a surplus, employees would benefit. There was that surplus to-day, but employees had not got any thing. The Prime Minister promised to take the question into consideration and to consult the Ministers responsible. Mr. J. T. Carr was re-elected president of the association for the next two years. The association also passed a motion in favour of Mr. T. K. Sidey’s Summer Time Bill.