ANTI-WASTE CAMPAIGN

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 260, 28 July 1921, Page 5

ANTI-WASTE CAMPAIGN

SERIOUSLY HEEDED BY BRITISH GOVERNMENT SALARIES OF CIVIL SERVANTS By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. July 27, 5.5 p.m.) London, July 26. Evidence is accumulating that the Government is seriously heeding the antiwaste campaign. Sir Robert Horne (Chancellor of the Exchequer) in the House of Commons, replying to criticisms regarding the excessive salaries paid to Civil servants, said the staff of the prewar Departments had increased from 283,000 to 312,000. This would be investigated. Fifty per cent, of the 300,000 entitled to war bonus received less than 355. a week, exclusive of the bonus, and 88 per cent, of the whole had less than. .£2OO a year. Only 6000 received salaries above .£5OO a year, and 777 received above. .£lOOO. Ten millions would automatically coine off tho bonuses in September. Apart from this reduction the Government had decided not to reduce salaries uiider £5OO a year, but no bonus should be paid where the salaries were over £lOOO a year. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.