THE CIVIL SERVICE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 14 May 1912, Page 5

THE CIVIL SERVICE.

A COMMISSION TO ENQUIRE

[By Telegraph:— Special to Stab.] WELLINGTON, May 14. It was decidd to-day by the Government to set up a Qommission to enquire into the state of the Civil Service. The order of reference and Personnel have not been finally settled, but I hear on excellent authority that the intention is to secure the services of not more than five (possibly three) thoroughly able business men, whose instructions will be to thoroughly overhaul the whole system and report on the relations between the different branches of the service; whether there is economical and effective co-operation; whether the system of promotion followed in the past is satisfactory; and in effect to inform the Government if the State is getting value from its large army of employees. Meanwhile, of course, the new classification scheme, with its 1700 appeals, is hung up with somewhat hopeless prospects. The final adoption of this question will be one in which the Commission will be asked to advise the Government. It will bs set up in the course of a fortnight.

The Prime Minister (Hon. T. Mackenzie) and the Hon. W. D. S. MacDonald (Minister of Public Works) leave Wellington in the morning for Gisborne to attend a function on Wednesday, organised by the people of that district in honor of their member, Sir James Carroll. It is twenty-two years since the Prime Minister was at Gisborne.