IN STATE EMPLOY
Too Many, Say Farmers
“We claim that we are overstaffed in the civil service," was one of the complaints made by the farmers’ deputation .to the Government yesterday. . There were 80,000 Civil servants in the country, said Mr. D. B. Higgins, of Matamata, and the primary industries could not afford it. Apart from the fact that there were too many of them, they highly paid. Farmers had been compelled to cut down their labour, and they, must ask that there should be a substantial reduction in the Civil .Service. There were also those who retired on superannuation, who should mot be allowed to take up civil employment. There were hundreds ot superannuated-men in Auckland who were keeping others out of employment, and it they did so they .should forfeit the amount subscribed from the public purse toward their superannuation. _■ The Hon. R. Masters, acting for . the Hon. E. A. Ransom, Acting-Prime Minister, said a special committee had been set up to go into the matter.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 53, 26 November 1930, Page 10
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168IN STATE EMPLOY Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 53, 26 November 1930, Page 10
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