FREEDOM IN POLITICS
Comments By MrC.T.Bolt
( N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON. Feb. 6.
“The freedom given to a public servant to take full part in political activities has done much to write down the status of the public servant in the eyes of the general public,” said Mr G. T. Bolt, former chairman of the Public Service Commission, before the Royal Commission on State Services today. Before 193 d, public servants were regarded as being above the battle of political policies, competent and capable of giving experienced and politically disinterested views to all political parties on all matters coming under review. “I doubt whether this is the case today,” Mr Bolt added. “It seems to me that political activities by public servants must in the long run lead to Ministerial appointments at top level as applies in the United States in many positions. "It is too much to expect an incoming Minister to accept willingly the advice of a controlling officer in the Public Service if that office was actively opposing the platform of the Minister’s party at a previous election,” he said.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29742, 8 February 1962, Page 10
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