RAILWAY OFFICERS.
Few people will deny that the officers of the Railway Department in New Zealand have been underpaid in the past. The salaries have not been anything like as large a.s those paid ir. other branches of the Public Service. The Minister of Railways has introduced a measure to remove this reproach, and we have no doubt that it will receive the endorsement of the Legislature. Although it is right that the railways should be. made to pareasonable interest upon the cost of construction, this should not ' < brom-bt alvnt at the expense of the, general efficiency of the service."' There are. departments of the-'-rail ways in which genuine economics might be practised, snob, for instance, as the construction department: but tlie men upon whom depends the responsibility for safeguarding the public interests and preserving life and limb should receive something like an adequate remuneration for their servi"Of.\ |
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10716, 21 October 1912, Page 4
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148RAILWAY OFFICERS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10716, 21 October 1912, Page 4
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