RETRENCHMENT.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 600, 31 August 1909, Page 5

RETRENCHMENT.

RETIREMENTS FROM TO-DAY. ■ : Several hundred Civil Servants throughout the Dominion /who - have been with three months' notice, 'under, the Government's retrenchment scheme, will quit their •'dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood" today. A large proportion of the retrenched left on June 80, and others, whose torrrr of notice expires - to-day, have enjoyed "leave of absence" during the last few weeks. Among those who go out to-day will be over a ! hundred officers of the Public Works and Roads Departments (of whom the great majority are from the Roads division), some 40 members of the Agricultural Department', ten of the Tourist Department, and o number from the Valuation Department. Of fifteen, members of the Health Department, and fourteen of the Electoral, Department, whose services have been dispensed with as from to-day, some have already left. The retirements to date under the retrenchment scheme are roughly estimated at between 400 and 500, and over 400 employees, mostly casual porkers, have been discharged from railway workshops throughout, the Dominion. The retiring officers of the Agricultural Department include Mr. C.- J. Fulton (chief fibre expert), Mr. W. Jaques (cannihg . exSert), Mr. J. C. Blackmore (geologist), Mr. 1. Bragato (viticulturist), and Mr. D. D. Hyde '(poultry expert).