CIVIL SERVANTS AND THE COST OF LIVING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7651, 31 May 1886, Page 5

CIVIL SERVANTS AND THE COST OF LIVING.

(FROMOCR parliamentary correspondent.] Wellington, Saturday. The following is the clause in the Civil Service Reform Act which enables the Board of Commissioners to inquire into the cost of living, with the view of regulating the salaries of Civil servants in respect of the present year as compared with 1880; whether cost of living and of necessaries of life have become so reduced as to make the salaries of the present year of a comparatively higher value than the salaries of the same amount in the year aforesaid ; and what percentage of increase or decrease should be mado in salaries ranging between £200 and £300 and between £300 and £500 respectively and in salaries over £500; to assimilate the respective values of the salaries paid in this year to the respective values of salaries of the same amount paid in the other year aforesaid in reapeot of the year 1889 and of every third year thereafter, as compared with the year of the then last previous report of the Commission as to the same purposo in the last preceding subsection mentioned. Upon the receipt of the report of the Commission salaries may be reduced or increased, but in no case to a greater degree than 2J per cent, on salaries ranging between £200 and £300, 5 par cent, on salaries.ranging between £300 and £500, »ad 10 per cent, on salaries exceeding £500.