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1911. NEW ZEALAND.

RAILWAYS COMMITTEE (REPORT OF) ON THE PETITION OF ROBERT C. MORGAN (ON BEHALF OF THE RAILWAY OFFICERS' INSTITUTE); TOGETHER WITH MINUTES OF EVIDENCE AND APPENDIX. (Mr. HOGAN, Chairman.)

Report brovght up on the 27th October, 1911, and ordered to be printed.

ORDER OF REFERENCE. Extract from the. Journals of the House of Representatives. Friday, the 4th Day of August, 1911. Ordered, " That a Committee be appointed, consisting of ten members, to examine and report upon question relating to the railways ; with power to call for persons and papers; three to be a quorum : the Committee to tor.eis of Mr. Arnold, Mr. Brown, Mr. Buick, Mr. Craigie, Mr. Hine, Mr. Hogan, Mr. Rhodes, Mr. Ross, Mr. Witty, and the mover." —(Hon. Mr. Millar.)

PETITION. To the Honourable the Speaker and the Members of the House of Representatives for the Dominion of New-Zealand in Parliament assembled. The humble petition of Robert Carhampton Morgan, of Princes Street, Dunedin, as general secretary to, and on behalf of, the members of the New Zealand Railway Officers' Institute, showeth as follows :— 1. That the members of the institute arc in the se vice of that branch of the public service emplo3-ed in connection with the Government railways under the Government Railways Act, 1908 (hereinafter called "the Act"), and belong to the Fust Division thereof, nnd are hereinafter referred to as " officers." 2. That the institute was formed for the purpose of (inter aha) promoting the consideration and discussion of all questions affecting officers, and watching over and protecting their interests, and is recoo-nized by the Railway Department as the organ of the officers throughout the Dominion. At the present time the membership of the institute is over 1,700, which is more than 90 per cent, of the total number of officers in the service of the Railway Department. 3. That the Governor is empowered under section 68 of the Act, by Order in Council gazetted, to make regulations not inconsistent with the Act for all or any of the matters therein set l'orth. 4. That in pursuance of such power the Governor, by Order in Council, dated at Wellington, the 18th day of May, 1910, and published in the-Gazette the following day, revoked the respective regulations referred to in the said Order in Council, and in lieu thereof made the regulations set forth in the schedule thereto. .... ;'",,.' 5. That the Department is classified under the into two divisions—namely, First Division and Second Division —with their respective subdivisions, classes, subclasses, and grades, as set forth in the Third Schedule thereto, and by the -Act it is therein enacted that the classification as existing when the Act came into force should be deemed to be the classification under the Act.

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