THE RAILWAY SERVANTS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10459, 25 October 1911, Page 5

THE RAILWAY SERVANTS

INCREASE IN WAGES. FOR THE FIRST DIVISION. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, La-t'Night. The Government Railway Bill was I introduced by Governor's Message in tlx© House of Representatives tonight. The Bill provides for an increase in the salaries of the se»n :1 division, and the restoring of the relative position» of the various classes which were destroyed by the increases proposed in the Bill. CVIi- M'alxx)ka asked if the amsnurnent affected the first division. 'fire Ho 11. J. A. Millar: "No." Ho knew there was dissatisfaction, b«ea.use all the railway servants had not got increases. The increases provided for would inn into £70,000, and were all for the second divisioa. The Government intended that married men in the service should not .receive less than 8s tad per day, >\ Jth a. minimum, of Bs. iMr Mvassey asked if the Bill oouM be amended to, provide that there would always be 50 per oent. of the engine-drivers in the first iivifc*ion. Tlie Hon. J. A. Millar replied that this was done as far asi the revenue

warranted. If it were made a p©>'iirianeney, there would be trouble, as the wages"had to be paid whether the trade warranted it or not. I!h© - 1 -- .creases in the Bill would come into .force on the first of November next. The Ball was agreed to.

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