SERVANTS OF THE STATE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 216, 11 September 1908, Page 7

SERVANTS OF THE STATE.

A LENGTHY LIST

SOME OF THE SALARIES. j

According to the Budget Estimates !onnn 6ar there are. in round figures, 18,000 permanent employees of the State, whose salaries range from £31 per year to £1250 per year. This list does not, however, iiiclrido teachers of primary and secondary schools —a very formidable addition--neither 4000 old railway employees, who are not on the 8~-3 list, cooperative and other labourers, temporary and extra clerks and employees, men engpged in tho State coal mines, and many others. In 1905 Mr Herdman asked in Parliament for a return showing (a) tho

total number of Civil Servants in the employ of the Crown on March 81, 1904; (b) the number of temporaryclerks, and (c) the number of persons other than Civil Servants, temporary clerks and school teachers, but' ncluding men employed on pubf'c works in receipt of pay from the Crown. The return furnished disclosed a total of 22,739. The Government Departments ' since then— four years ago—have increased considerably and more casual hands have been employed. School teachers 'are not included in the return, the railway employees have largely increased, and the post and telegraph figures have gone up by over one thousan-*. The total number may, therefore, bo given as near 40,000. . Another return supplied at Mr Herdman's request gave the total ■wages' paid to the 22,739 employees for the year 1903-4. (again excluding State school toachers). The amount was £2,830,668 lls lid. With *? eBI figures somo idea can be formed of the annual wages list of the State at the present time, with the additions! employment given. It is also interesting to calculate the large number or" people there must bo in the country either directly or indirectly attached by financial interest to the State. Following are some of the highersalaried officials:—General Manager of Railways £1250 per annum, Solici-tor-General £1000, Balneologist at Rotorua £1000, Chief Health Officer £900, Inspector-General of Mental Hospitals £925, Government Insurance Commissioner £1000, Secretary to the Treasury £950, Secretary to the Post and Telegraph Department £900, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Railway Department £900, Chief Traffic Manager £900, Secretary ror and Inspector of Customs £750, Under-Secretary tor Crown Lands £750, Surveyor-General £700, Secretary for Agriculture £625, ValuerGeneral £700, Inspector-General of Education £725, Inspector-General of Hospitals and Charitable Institutions £800 Land Purchase Officer £eUU, Public Trustee £800, actuary o*f the Government Insurance Departments £875, Secretary of the Government Insurance £750, manager of the Wellington district agency £< 00, General Manager of the State Fire Insurance Department £800, Land and Income Tax Commissioner £BQO, AssistantSecretary and Inspector of the Post and Telegraph Department £750, Inspector of Electric Lines (Post I Telegraph Department) £850, Gen-" eral°Manager of the Tourist Department and Industrial and Commerce Department £700, accountant of the Railway Department £700, Chief Engineer of the Railway Department £800, Government Printer £650, Commissioner, of Stamps £700, Under-Seeretary for Native Affairs £600, Chief Judge of the Native Land Court £700, Under-Secretary for Justice £650j Inspector of Prisons £700, Commissioner of Police £600, | Under-Secretary for 'Mines JE6SO, Director of Geological Survey £800— and so on. Many of these positions entail a considerable amount of travelling about, and then, of course, "allowance" and expenses are fLCS.cI.6rCL ' Magistrates are paid from £450 to £650 (one Wellington magistrate receiving the last-mentioned sum), one magistrate and District rCourt judge in the Auckland district draws £700, and another magistrate and District Court judge in the Christchurch and Westland district £750. The Regis-trar-General receives £560. In the Defence Department a military member, of whom there are three, has a salary of £550, and house (£75). The headquarters-staff get from £215 to £500 and hou&e.. allowance. A major of the Permanent Force receives £325 with house allowance, and an officer commanding a Volunteer district £350, and free quarters.