GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AND PRIVATE BUSINESS
TROUBLE IN QUEENSLAND. (Press Association.— Copyright.) . (Rec. 9:30 a.m.) BRISBANE, This Day. The Governor opened Parliament. The-programme contains nothing start ling, • £he report of the, inquiry into the Surveyor General's department has been presented to the Assembly. It is stated, that disloyalty is-rampant in the department, and that flagrant breaches of regulations enabled a coterie of officials to derive : pecuniary benefit in addition, to their salaries, thus securing advantages denied officials who had not ipterformedf private work. ,On the | xdcommendation of the Public Service/ Board, the salaries of five officers were | reduced for certain periods, i
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLVIII, 8 July 1914, Page 5
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