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J. Lindsay : Present rate of pay, lis.; 11 years 7 months fireman, 1 year 7 months driver —total service, 13 years 2 months. J. Sargent: Present rate of pay, lis.; 2 years 3 months cleaner, 6 years 4 months fireman, 9 years 10 months driver —total service, 18 years 5 months. Driving for 7f years prior to January, 1889. C. Taylor : Present rate of pay, lis. ; 6 years 9 months fireman, 4 years 1 month driver—total service, 10 years 10 months. Driving for f year prior to January, 1889. I. Morrison: Present rate of pay, lis.; 7 years 1 month fireman, 9 years 4 months driver—total service, 16 years 5 months. Driving for 8J years prior to January, 1889. W. F. Sligo : Present rate of pay, 10s. 6d.; 7 years 7 months cleaner, 3 years 4 months fireman, 7 months driver—total service, 11 years 6 months. S. Wakefield: Present rate of pay, 10s. 6d.; 4 years fireman, 12 years 5 months driver —total service, 16 years 5 months. Driving for 12 years prior to January, 1889. H. Thomas: Present rate of pay, 10s. 6d.; 2 years 8 months cleaner, 6 years 11 months fireman, 7 years 3 months driver—total service, 16 years 10 months. Driving for 7 years prior to January, 1889.

Statement of Drivers promoted from One Class to Another since January, 1889, to January, 1894, showing Name, Promotion, and Length of Service in each Class. W. Hunter: From second class to leading; 6 years 11 months second class, 1 year 10 months leading. C. Smith : From second class to first clas3; 3 years 9 months second class, 4 years 5 months first class. G. Smith : From second class to first class; 5 years 11 months second class, 3 months first class. J. Brass: From second class to first class; 6 years 3 months second class, *12 years 7 months first class. W. H. Jordan : From second class to leading; 2 years 11 months second class, *8 years 5 months first class, 10 months leading. E. Maxwell: From second class to first class; 9 years 3 months second class, *4 years 9 months first class. E. H. Ashton : From second class to first class; 5 months second class, *18 years 11 months first class. W. Mason: From second class to locomotive foreman; 2 years second class, *10 years first class, 2 years 11 months leading, 3 years 3 months locomotive foreman. J. Newlands : From second class to first class; 2 years 1 month second class, 7 months first class. A. Cockroft: From second class to first class; 2 years 6 months second class, *12 years 5 months first class. W. Owen: From second class to first class; 2 years 10 months second class, fl6 years 1 month first class.

Statement of Drivers and Firemen who have not been promoted, since January, 1889, to January, 1894, showing Name, Class, Present Location, and Length of Service. H. Stephenson : Leading driver, Palmerston North, 19 years 5 months. E. Hope : Leading driver, Cross Creek, 15 years 3 months. J. Hoban: Leading driver, Christchurch, 29 years 6 months. B. T. Leathwick: Leading driver, Christchurch, 21 years 10 months. S. Carter : Leading driver, Oamaru, 19 years 3 months. C. Fowke: First-class driver, Ashburton, 20 years 10 months. J. Thomas: First-class driver, Dunedin, 20 years 9 months. J. Dunbar : First-class driver, Oamaru, 20 years 9 months. W. Hill: First-class driver, Christchurch, 19 years 10 months. J. Sinclair: First-class driver, Dunedin, 19 years 3 months. J. Mclntyre: First-class driver, Oamaru, 19 years 2 months. T. Stanley : First-class driver, Fairlie, 21 years 4 months. J. Woodbury : First-class driver, Christchurch, 18 years 6 months. J. Sparrow : First-class driver, Dunedin, 18 years 6 months. T. Young: First-class driver, Belgrove, 18 years. A. Sutherland : First-class driver, Oamaru, 18 years 9 months. W. Kemp : First-class driver, Upper Hutt, 17 years 11 months. J. Stewart: First-class driver, Dunedin, 18 years. F. Berry : First-class driver, Auckland, 19 years 2 months. E. Paterson : First-class driver, Dunedin, 17 years 8 months. H. Stephens: First-class driver, Foxton, 17 years 5 months. M. Allen : First-class driver, Outram, 18 years 3 months. F. Symonds : First-class driver, Dunedin, 18 years 10 months. T. Dennis : First-class driver, Auckland, 18 years 9 months. H. J. Webb: First-class driver, Invercargill, 19 years 10 months. C. Eeeves : First-class driver, Port Chalmers, 18 years 4 months.

* These men had been previously in the first class, but had been reduced to the lower grade, and subsequently promoted. f This man was in the first class upon his services being dispensed with, in September, 1890. He rejoined the service, and was subsequently reinstated in his former position.