NEARLY COMPLETED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 150, 26 June 1937, Page 15

NEARLY COMPLETED.

CIVIL SERVICE GRADING.

COMMISSIONERS BUSY.

(From Our Own Correspondent)

WELLINGTON, fhis day

The first regrading of the civil servants of the -Dominion for eight vears will have been completed and he ready to be put into effect in a few months. *

The last regrading under the statute was made in 1929, and the next was due in 1934. This was postponed, however, by special Act of Parliament, because of the financial conditions existing at that time, and even after the present Government was elected it was not clear what would be done. Matters were held up for some time because the necessary authority had not l>een given by the Executive Council, and the future method of control of the service was for some time uncertain. After the appointment of the new commissioners in August last, when Messrs. T. Mirk and J. H. Boyes took over control of the service, a decision was made to proceed with the regrading and the necessary authority was gazetted in September. From that date both the commissioners have been tourinrr the country, going into out-of-the-way places, in some cases, to expedite the work. The usual inspectors have also been on the road assessing the value of jobs, and the commissioners themselves have followed up their backblocks investigations by sittings in main centres. At the same time the Treasury has been at work preparing estimates of the effect which the regrading will have on the country's finances.