NEW ZEALAND NEWS
RAILiWAYMEN’S DEMANDS. SETTLEMENT IN SIGHT. WELLINGTON, March 25. The railway management has now arrived at an estimate of the increased cost of the various items included in the programme of improved pay and conditions put forward by the Railway Societies Conferences will be hold with the Railway Officers’ Institute on the 26th instant and with the A.S.R.S. on the 27th.
Afterwards the Minister will submit to the executives of the three.societies a schedule of alterations in pay and conditions which he is prepared to submit to Cabinet. This will bo on or before March: .‘>3. The new schedule, when approve}! by Parliament, will be operative from April 1, 1919.
AJANA’S TROOPS LANDED
AUCKLAND, this day
The Ajana’s troops were landed this morning. They were mostly B class men, that is, not quite fit for active service, and included two hundred who had never been in action. All were walking cases. Corporal Harrncll disappeared on March 19. The troops arc in good health, except for intermittent outbreaks of mumps, of which seven cases were removed to the hospital here. A fortnight after leaving England and five days off New Zealand coast heavy weather was experienced. Calls were made at Norfolk in the Virginia and Pitcairn Islands.
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Taihape Daily Times, 26 March 1919, Page 4
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