The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 6, Issue 7 (February 1, 1932.)
Suggestions and Inventions
Suggestions and Inventions.
It is pleasing to find that the interest of the staff and public in forwarding suggestions and submitting inventions, intended to effect improvements in all phases of railway working, continues unabated. These are coming to hand at the rate of over a hundred a month, the total since the Suggestions and Inventions Committee was set up in 1925 amounting to 7,828, of which about 10% have been adopted.
The value of the proposals to the Department may be judged from the fact that approximately £1,000 has already been distributed in monetary awards in connection with accepted proposals. I desire to assure both public and staff that such interest is very much appreciated, and that further suggestions will be welcomed.
Any new idea, no matter how trifling it appears, may have value, and when submitted is treated as confidential. It is assured of most careful and impartial consideration at the hands of an expert and experienced technical committee, to the members of which the source of the suggestion is not disclosed.
General Manager.