PUBLIC SERVICE SALARIES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue XXXXI, 15 June 1920, Page 8

PUBLIC SERVICE SALARIES.

■MR MASSEY'S COMPREHENSIVE SCHEME.

INCREASED RAILWAY FARES

AND POSTAL RATES

(BY TEI--6BAPH—p-ft/FRS ASSOCTA*r rO"Nr.) WELLINGTON, June 15. Replying to a deputation from the' Post and Telegraph Conference yesterday, Mr Massey announced that the i Government proposed to deal with the' question of public service salaries in a comprehensive way, and he would endeavor to get a scheme settled before the. House met. "It is not onl^ the railway people' we have to provide for," said Mr Massey. "We have to *• provide for the post and telegraph service, for the police, and for the school teachers, and the Government propose to ask certain officers of the public service, men of experience and ability, men such as the Public Service Com--■missioners, head of the Postal Department, head of the Railway Department, and head of the Treasury, to assist the Government in drawing up what I believe to be a satisfactory scale of payments. We have no intention of keeping the Postal Departmentout in. any way or dealing with them ■•unfairly compared with the other branches of the public service. I wish to make it clear that every Department will .be considered by itself. What we do with the Railway Department cannot be applied to the Postal Department, because the conditions of duties are not the same. Oui* aim is . to have the salaries of the public service settled and settled for some time to come. ..' This will^ mean au increased burden to the taxpayer; there will be no doubt about that. I hope to he •able to get the money so far as the Railway Department is concerned. I am going to get the money by putting up the fares and freights, and so far as the postal service is concerned I am going to put up the rates. It is only/fair that the people using these services should pay.