Housing the Department's Employees.

The Department is keenly appreciative of the important part comfortable residential accommodation for married employees plays in securing a contented staff. A clerk, with the aid of an effective card system, records the details of between three and four thousand houses which are provided by the Department and reserved for occupation by members of the staff. The system of control of house property is complete, and allocation of houses to employees of all classes throughout the system is arranged by the housing section of the Staff Division, which experiences on a large scale all the problems of the average house agent.

As an adjunct to the activities connected with housing, this section arranges for the printing and distribution to District Controlling Officers of passes for use by the staff when travelling on official business or while on holiday leave.