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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 7, Issue 4 (August 1, 1932)
Inquiry and Employment Section
Inquiry and Employment Section.
We are first taken to the Inquiry and Employment Section, where a courteous clerk, between the periods devoted to attending to inquiries of numerous callers, deals with an imposing pile of correspondence from applicants for employment. Each application is carefully recorded and indexed on a most up-to-date card index register, which comprises some 75,000 cards. Copies of documents and testimonials submitted by applicants are checked with the originals, which are duly returned to the applicant with an acknowledgment, while the copies are filed in a fire-proof strongroom for future reference.
While observing the orderly system in evidence in the Employment Section our attention is drawn in no uncertain manner to the fact that there are busy typewriters in the vicinity.
Passing to the next room we view with interest row upon row of typewriters, at which, under the watchful eye of the Lady Supervisor, a large staff of capable shorthand-typistes are turning out a mass of official correspondence from shorthand notes dictated to them by the staff in the surrounding offices.
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New Zealand Railways Staff Division
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(1) Mr. A. Urquhart, Staff Superintendent; (2) Divisional Clerks—Mr. J. A. Martin, Senior Clerk[gap — reason: illegible]), Messrs. A. F. Taylor (left) and L. G. Shepherd; (3) Mr. G. L. Anderson, Staff Assistant; (4) General Office—Classification and Posting Sections; (5) A section of the modern card index system Location cards; (6) Typistes' Office—Miss B. R. McQueen (standing), Lady Supervisor; (7) Inquiry Office and Employment Section.