All-Round Co-Operation Desired.

In effecting the re-organisation of the Department on strict business principles it has been necessary to adopt methods entirely dissimilar page 10 to those which hitherto have played their part in the working of the Railways. A further extension of these principles is intended in the near future. A constant endeavour is being made by the Administration to get to grips with the problems confronting employees in the course of their daily duties, and the public in their dealings with the service, and to anticipate the just requirements of both. The ideals, aims and standards of each require sympathetic interpreting and careful fashioning with the object of guiding economic endeavour along those routes where waste of material and energy may best be prevented and wherein greater gratification may accrue to all concerned through the more satisfactory functioning of Departmental operations.

Admitting that there is a best way of doing everything, the Department is seeking just that, holding high all the while the ring of Progress inscribed with the slogan, “Traffic is secured by courtesy, held by efficiency, and turned to profit by co-operation and economy.” This ideal embraces the preservation of the best of the past and the fullest use of all Railway assets, material, manual and mental.