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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 13, Issue 2 (May 2, 1938.)

An Interesting Competition

An Interesting Competition.

We live in an age of competitions. A somewhat different contest from the station gardens effort is the “Sales Contest” recently introduced by the Southern Railway. With the idea of increasing passenger and freight revenues the various stations on the system have been grouped into leagues, and each station has been advised what revenue it will be expected to earn during the year so as to produce a total increase in railway earnings for 1938 of about £250,000. The scoring is based on percentage of increase, and silver cups and shields are to be presented to the winners in each of the company's six divisions. In addition, there are cash awards for the best sales efforts by individual members of the staff. An interesting feature is that each station displays a special calendar showing the progress made week by week.