THE PUBLIC SERVICE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 13 June 1925, Page 11

THE PUBLIC SERVICE

COMM isslOxfoT CONTROL efficacy OF PRETEXT SYSTEM 1,, wit!; the proposed f .y. , ; .v.-.,. p.d'orir. i.’i'i Liaerai.; ji"j s i; •» o-liii.-r t.'m f'nbl:.’ Sat vs.-;» j'tKirfljiJ r.it. es ..i/i i?S pr-.'.'t-'/ig poi Ht. • i„ , V ui CM'... Tne principal v.ns nviiily espoused i.y the .Massey ties am. ;i s oppOSOll Uy tin* Einontis* win/ regarded tha change as a railed ion on their own methods ot running the s, rvice as in truth it was. hence the vehemence with whirl, the innovation was fought. i ksem-sing the fusion development the join nai descrihas the situation as sue It as to nrrrssilale t lie Puhlia Service Ass'oriat inn keeping its weather eye wed op. li and its fi res on the alert "lest t !1„. ;.„v atieuip! to undermine that which is 1 l paramo mil interest to. the Public Service, the mupolit iea I system :,j control. That form of control created a vast improvement, not. only in the. (piality . 'lie general administration oi ; service, lull ids,:, in the. conditions cl tin puhlie servant himselt. to sa\ in lht]<of the atmosphere in which he lain lirs and lives. ' ■ We think." says the New Zealand limes, "that the Public Service Association need have no fears oi a Relivnni.dural fusion endangering the continual; c i * i nmmissioner control. It is true 1 1j. 1 1 leading* members oi the I.ioeial Part v have lost no opportunity of assailing the svsleni now in operation. ..\lso.~h is true that at the last Oencrid Election the majority of Liberal onndid.i.'.es carefully dodged giving a straight : out answer to tin pointed question put i.i them !iv the assev iat ion. It is. tni conecivahle that commissioner control will he sacrificed mi the altar ot atnal gamut inn. In the lirst [dace the Liberals are not at all likely to ask it. ijiat is if they are wise Liberals, and in the second' place llte ( bivei nment would net scrimislv consider such a prole,so! for a moment. If we. know the prime Minister and his immediate rol- |[; ague.- aright. they are too thoroughly | convinced of tin benefits cl' the cmnmisj i’luuer svstem even to think <1 reiraeiiing their steps. Political control was j tried over many years and found waiitI i,,c. ri . ■■•’as' a certain amount nt ■s,idling- ui the service. I’diicieuev j was neither encouraged nor recognised ias it is new. Whatever may occasionally have been lacking in a commissioner the principle itself has proved beyond argument, its clcarcul superiority over the orgimil svsi cm. L there were au\ doilhts'o'ii the matter they will he disdied l,v tho frank testimony of the Public Service Journal which speaks for the whole of the service. If the more responsible of civil servants are unable 1(1 speak authoritatively on the. subject of commissioner control, to ! whom shall we turn fur the light.' loir j the civil servant with initiative, arnbiiicu. and a capacity for always doing his best, there never, were prospects so encouraging as exist to-day. Iho convniissioner system needs no further justification. ’ • -n ’xmaurma^uaaaKiaSrßM!!iK3BSOaSStS3aßßM^COKßK