PUBLIC SERVICE APPEALS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 65, 17 March 1914, Page 8

PUBLIC SERVICE APPEALS.

LONG AND EXPENSIVE TASK. (By Telegraph.—Special to "Star.") WELLINGTON, Monday. The Public Service Appeal Board, which started its tour to-night, has completed something more than half its task of hearing 1500 appeals lodged against the Public Service Commissioners' preliminary classification of Civil servants. It has sat in Wellington continuously since last September, and will be on the move in the South Island until Easter. Then the whole of the North Island, excluding the capital, will have to be covered. Thus, it will be seen that the classification of Civil servants involves a huge and somewhat expensive task. The Board comprises Messrs. Peter Barr (chairman), of Dunedin, J. H. Richardson, A. Marryat (Wellington), and F. J. Mbwat (Dunedin). Contrary to the opinion current wh«n the conditions for lodging appeals first became .public, the Board has heard evidence in the majority of cases. Mr. Thomson (Assistant Commissioner) has been present at the taking of evidence, and I understand that as the appeals care disposed of they are referred to the Commissioners, so that the classification list to be compiled by March 31st will to a certain extent embody the Appeal Board's work to date.