The Civil Service Bill.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 125, 28 May 1891, Page 2

The Civil Service Bill.

, W^LLjNaToy, May 27, The Civil Servioe Bill provides for the setting up of a Civil Service Board, with tho Colonial Secretary as chairman, the service to be olassiflecUn eight divisions. £he first, division ig to.oonßistof b'ffioers rejjeiyinff salaries ranging from £450 to £800. Its subdivision is to bo done by the Governor in Counoil, and power Is given to place 1 in tho first olaas of the division suoh other offloera than the heads of departments as the Governor thinks ought, from the nature of theit duties, to be bo inoluded. The second, division will inolude officers with salaries running from £364 up to £440, ; the third division from j£2Bo to £340; the fourth division from : £220 to. £265 ; the fifth' division from £180' W #210 5 the sixth division from £140 to £170 j the seventh division from £100, to £130; the eighth division (oadets) £35 to £75, Qn or before the olose of each finanqiaj year the Board is to oiuse enquiry to he made in eaoh depart* meat as to : what officers have by diligence and merit beoome entitled to favourable oon« sideration, If tho Board is satisfied that some alteration in the naturo of an inoreaso of salary is desirable, it ib to recommend the Government to make provision, accordingly. Every, officer . hefttfjje* f la' to be entitled to advance by <mo olass eaoh year Thus, beginning with, £85 in his first year of cadetship his salary in the second year will be £4,5, in the third £00, in the fourth £75, and in the fifth (lowest olass of '.th/s aeteiith diyision) to £100 ; thence he will advance by annual increments of £10 to £170. the maximum salary payable in the fji^th. division. Beyond that Btage he will be advanced as the Boari may r,ee\>nMßeiid. Housekeepers, messengers, orieta of oourta, baihffa, gardeners, warders qt. . priaona or lunatic asylums, boatmen, latourors, eto., are not hereafter, to he deemed Jo be ia tta Oml Service. Every, officer ia to hava.^e light of annealing either as to hiß duties salary or emoluments, eto. Tho Oblonial fteotetary is to have the general adminiatra-' tion of the Aot, and tho Board will make ; reoommendatnonß and generally advise the Colonial Saojretary, and bear appeals and ohargea against ; offioers. Any offloet whoaa wrvioes are dispensed with alter the Ant oomea into foroe ia to be entitled to compenflauou as follows: -If he joined prio/to 1886, th4 nm Act ia not to ft lt« hi 8 prewnt arrantfement aa to oompenaation ; it ha waa appointed aino 8 1886 he,»Bball ba M p a idthe amount atanding to hia owditi under tW Ao« mentioned. .Any. offio^ hereafter appointed is to be habla to dismal at three month 9 ' aotwa w«ho.m Oompulsory life iQ««ra«oe is provided lor. At the age. of 6ft every person heteuJier appointed is toratire, but the Governor iu Oounqil niny require him to aiay «t his post unleia unfitted by ill. health or .o *her suffioieut cause.. No appointment to Iheaervioe ia to ba made other syiae than by oadetship, esoept iu oaaea where it beoomes neqeaaary to seoure the aeivioea of aomo p^raoa of professional or taohnioal skill orol known ability, and no vaoanoy ia lo be filled from outside the aervice unlesß there ia do pffloer in the servioe qualified to fill the position, a Boale of leave of abaenoa is laid dowhaa follows :— After 10 years' eer?ioe4 weeks eaoh year, after 6 years' aertice three weeks, after 1 year two weeks. This ia apart Iron* the right of the Governor to allow one offiaer of ten years' standing ais months' holiday on halt salary, or to one of twen&; years' twelve months. , , . ■