RAILWAY PAY.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 May 1921, Page 2

RAILWAY PAY.

SOME AMENDING REGULATIONS.

The following railway regulations have been ssued.

No member who is married, or who is a widower with, a child or children under tne age of sixteen years living with and dependent upon him, shall be paid at (i lower rate than L £234 15s per annum.

No member who is twenty-two years of age or upwards shall be paid, at " lower rate than £lOO per annum. For the purpose of giving effect to the last two preceding paragraphs any such member as is mentioned therein shall receive by way of special allowance, such additional sum as will raise the rate of pay to which he is entitled under the schedule to the Government Railways Act, 1908, to the rates named. Suah additional sum shall. In the case df each member, be paid in. the same manner and be subject to the same conditions as his salary under y.he schedule.

The right to receive such additional sum shall be deemed to commence on. the date on which the mexber concerned. furnishes |to the permanent head satisfactory evidence that he possesses the qualifications entitling him thereto.

Members of Division 11 stationed and residing at isolated, places as determined by the permanent head may be paid an allowance of 6d per day. Any apprentice who, in his own time, gains a diploma or certificate of proficiency in his trade (which diploma or certificate is of a standard satisfactory to the permanent head) from any public technical school or college may be paid an allowance at the rate of 6d per day in addition to such allowance to be payable from the date on which such diploma or certificate is produced to the master of such apprentice; provided, however, that not more than one such allowance shall be paid to the same apprentice.

An allowance at a rate not exceeding Is per day may, on the approval of the permanent head, be paid to any employee in Division 11 when such employee is engaged on work of a more than ordinarily dirty nature.

If and whenever a member of Division 11 is on duty for a continuous period of not less than eleven hours, and (being at his home station) is not allowed time off duty at such station for the purpose of taking a meal during such period, he will be paid an allowance of 2s.