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Q-So there must be some way of getting on the list ?
A-You apply to get on the list.
Q-I think it would be advisable to get a list.*
A-I daresay they would send you that.
By the Chairman.-Have you anything to suggest to the Commission in ad- dition to what you have already told us?
A-The only thing I would care to draw your attention to is the shifting of small paid clerks. They are not much good to another Department if they have been work- ing for a year or two in the Public Works Department.
By Mr. Master.-Shifting to where ?
A-Say, down to the Harbour Office.
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A-A few dollars more.
By the Chairman.-But does not the classification scheme that has just been drawn up get over that difficulty?
A—We have not got that office classified.
Q-What is the good of classifying officers, then?
A-I don't see much good in it. The thing would be to recommend a man to promotion to a higher class, if this higher class happens to be in another Department, you take him away from the work he has been trained to.
Mr. Shewan.-Men must be shifted.
By Mr. Thurburn.-How long has your present staff been there?
A-We have had about two changes in about fifteen months.
Q-I don't see how you can get over that? It is promotion in your own office? A-There is a difficulty. There is not much good in a clerk's going down as a copyist to another Department after he has been trained for a special kind of work in
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N. S. P. TRIMINGHAM, P.W.D., sworn:-
By the Chairman.-You are Assistant Engineer in the Public Works De- partment, are you not?
A-Yes.
Q-How long have you been in that position?
A-Thirteen months.
Q-And you work under Mr. HOLLINGSWORTH directly in connection with the Water Department ?
A-Yes.
Q-What special branch of the Water Department have you been giving most at-- tention to ?
A-More particularly to the reservoirs out at Tytam, or, I should say, to the new reservoirs at Tytan.
*Appendix No. 22.
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