CIVIL SERVICE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 288, 29 August 1908, Page 4

CIVIL SERVICE.

. . ANQMAUEa JN MhARIES. ; ' SOME INSTANCES; . The more the question oif Civil Service salaries is looked into, tho mora is the- matter seen to teem with anomalies. Classification Board will find it difficult to reconcile the following discrepancies, which are quoted from a single Department. It is not natural to suppose that that Department is in ,a niore cuaotic state as regards the reniuneratipn of its officers than others, > Au English - solicitor, appointed as a temporary has been_ promoted to an important p"»?ion, carrying with it an addition of salary, over tho heads of several wlio are senior to him in service,. A puhjip servant of over 70. years, who happens to be related to a departmental secretary, receives a higher salary than two fellow officers, who aro solicitors, with mora than twico his length of service, aud than eight other officers who have longer service. An officer who may bo called A, with 22 years' service, is receiving £35 loss than B, with ono year loss service, £30 Jess than C, with sis years' less service, £5 loss than D, with six years' less service, £30 less than E, with eleven; years'' less service, and ,£2a less than F, withsisteen years' less service" Ho also receives.Jess ,pay than a temporary clerk in with thtpo years' jes.i service, •

Two solicitors in the Department, ii)' which legal knowledge is. important, receive less pay than two nonrsoliqitprs, ivith'lees" service, apd than three other officers, who are temporary plerks. '.. _ • Aq cfiicor. was, recently appointed to a cortnin' vacancy at a higher salary to. commence with than.his predecessor received after twelve years, in tlip position. A cadet appointed at £-10 per annum, with £25 per apnum hoarding allowance, aud ail annual increase of £10 a year, has actually received at the end of ten years £460 less salary, including boarding allowance, or, pot counting boarding ■ allowance, £585' less salary than a temporary clerk appointed at 10s. a daiy,and not receiving an increase of pay for ten years, and of course the difference is much more if the temporary clerk has had an inorease of. pay during that time. Tho temporary clerks in Wellington' have all received an iincrease of 6d. or 1«. a day for somo years past.' A cadet's salary for five years is as follows: —£40, £60, £60, £70j £80 (with boarding allqwanoe of £25 each year if lie is away from homo), and for the next fivo-years, under tho most-favourable conditions, as follows£lls, £125,. £135, £145, £155 (boarding allowanoe ceasing after tho fifth year). This gives a total salary and board allowance for ten years of £1100, whereas a' temporary clerk, even if ho has never had an increase, will have" received £156.1, It is stated that all temporary clerka emi ployed in Wellington, who appear on the nominal roll for tho year 1007-8, receive Is. a day more than appears against their names in that roll. : The remuneration of cadets will _ be ii' creased under tho scale of salaries laid dowv by tho Public Service Classification Act,