DELAY CONDEMNED

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 124, 26 May 1923, Page 8

DELAY CONDEMNED

PUBLIC SERVICE PROTESTS THE VACANT COMMISSIONERSHIP. (BT TELEGRAPn.—PHESS ASSOCIATION.) HAMILTON, This Day. _ The Waikato section of the Public Service Association has resolved: "This section views with alarm the delay in the appointment of .a Public 1 Service Commissioner, the position now having been vacant since the end of February, and enters an emphatic protest. It is unfair to the Public Service and the general public, and to the Acting-Commissioner, that the unsatisfactory, position, should continue. The service regards the Commissioner as its protection against political influence. The Acting-Commission- ! er is temporally performing the duties of the office, but is removable at any time. In the interest of efficiency we u/ge that, an appointment be made without further delay." CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. A special meeting of the committee o{ the Canterbury section committee of the Public Service Association passed the following motion:' This association, believing that the tenure of the Public Service Commissioner's appointment should secure him from any suggestion o! political influence, strenuously protests against the scandalous inaction of the- Government in its failure to make a permanent appointment to that office; and urges all members of Parliament and the Press to use every endeavour to terminate the anomaly of the unconstitutional temporary appointment,, which leaves the appointee subject to the possibility of removal from office j at any moment."