CIVIL SERVICE CLASSIFICATION
DISSATISFACTION IN THE. SOUTH. (rRESS ASSIKIATIOX TELEGRAM.) DUNEDIN. March 14. Strong dissatisfaction is felt locally in regard to tho Civil Service classification. One gentleman stated that many clerks had been astonished to find ten or twelve 'subordinate officers, with considerably less eorvko, pkeed ahead cf them in tho provisional list. He addwl that about tho year 1906, when classification was first discussed in Parliament, it was understood that efficieucj; was to bo tho passport to promotion, and as a result many Civil Servants sot to work to qualify ac aocountante or solicitors. The accountants had not yot received special recognition, and those who hnd qualified as solicitors had been ignored. It is understood that a large number of appeals have been forwarded from Dunedin.
(srECIAI- TO "THE fMESS"). INVERCARGLLL, March 14. Tho dissatisfaction of Civil Servant* with the new classification schemo is very keen in Southland. , A '"Times" reporter, who made enquiries to-day asi'ertninrd that fully 75 por cent, of tho Southland employees had lodged written objections, und in most cases'thoso concerned are feolinij very «>oro indeed that their interests arc ueing apparently neglected.
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14304, 15 March 1912, Page 7
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