THE PUBLIC SERVICE
INCREASED EXPENDITURE ’‘EXTRAVAGANCE THAT CANNOT STAND” When stressing the need for lower production costs in the Dominion at yesterday’s meeting of the British (U.K.) Manufacturers' Association of New Zealand, the president, Mr. L. A. Edwards, drew attention to the increasing cost of the Public Service. Expenditure, he said, was increasing, whether Government, municipal, or individual. Mr. Edwards pointed out that exclusive of the working railways there were 11,587 Public servants in New Zealand in 1914, and that by 1929 the number had increased to 22,019. The salaries paid to the Public Service in 1914 totalled £1,914,016, and in 1929 the amount was £5,421,560. The cost of administration was £1653 per 1000 in 1914, and in 1929 it was £2463 per 1000. The efficiency of the Public Service had not Increased. In 1914 it took one Public servant to 91 persons, but In 1929 the proportion was one to 66 persons.
“This standard of extravagance cannot stand,” declared Mr. Edwards, who also said that municipal costs were more or less parallel with those of the Public Service.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 57, 30 November 1929, Page 10
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179THE PUBLIC SERVICE Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 57, 30 November 1929, Page 10
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