PUBLIC SERVICE COSTS
ENORMOUS INCREASE (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Nov. 30. When stressing the need for lower nroduction costs ■in the Dominion, at a meeting of the British (U.K.) Manufacturers’ Association of New Zealaa< -> the President .(Mr. Edwards) drew attention to. the increasing cost of the public service. . ' „ He pointed out that exclusive ot working railways, there were 11,587 public servants in New Zealand in 1914, and that by 1929ythe number had increased to 22,019. The to the public service m 1914 totalled £1,914,016, and in 1928, the amount was £5,421,560. The cost of administration was £1,653 per one thousand in 1914, and in 1929 it was £2,463 per one thousand. The efficiency of the 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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Greymouth Evening Star, 30 November 1929, Page 5
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