POSTAL SALARIES
NEW SCHEDULES WORKING MORE RAPID INCREASES Press Association WELLINGTON, Thursday. Details of the new salary schedule for male officers of the general division of the Post and Telegraph Department. authorised by the Prime Minister. Sir Joseph Ward, to operate as from Tuesday last, were announced todav In the past message boys have been employed at a fixed rate of £57 per annum. Under the new schedule thev will commence at £52 per annum and proceed to £65 per annum after 12 months’ service. The scale of salaries paid in the past tc officers such as postmen, messengers. chauffeurs, linemen and exchange clerks was as follows, according to years of service: £7O £g*» £95. £lO9. £122, CI4S, £ISI. £l94’ £207. £220 and £240. It thus took ar. officer commencing on £7O per annum 10 years to reach the maximum of his class. In the new schedule provision is made for such officers to proceed to the maximum of the class after six years’ service by these salarv step*£75, £9O. £lO5. £l2O, £3 35, £l9O and £240. The first five years' service is regarded as the apprentice stage and the sixth year as the improvers’ stage. The schedule also provides for tradesmen to proceed to a maximum salary of £260 per annum.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 940, 5 April 1930, Page 16
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212POSTAL SALARIES Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 940, 5 April 1930, Page 16
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