THE PUBLIC SERVICE
ITS INCREASING COST,
(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, November 30
When stressing the need for lower production costs in the Dominion at a meeting of the British (U.K.) Manufacturers’ Association of New Zealand President Edwards drew attention to the increasing cost of the public service and pointed out that exclusive of the working railways there were 11,587 public servants in New Zealand’in 1914 and that by 1929 the number had increased to 22,019.
Tlie salaries paid the public service in 1914 totalled £1,914,016 and in 1929 the amount was £5,421,560, The cost of administration was £1653 per one thousand in 1914, and in 1929 it was £2463 per one thousand. The efficiency of the service had not increased. In 1914 it took one public servant to 91 persons hut in 1929 the proportion was one to 66 persons. “This standard of extravagance cannot stand,” declared Mr Edwards, who also said municipal costs were more or less parallel with those of tli'e public service. I
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 November 1929, Page 6
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