COST OF PUBLIC SERVICE.
INCREASING EXPENDITURE.
COMPLAINT OF EXTRAVAGANCE
[BT TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] WELLINGTON'. Saturday.
When stressing the reed for lower production costs in the Dominion at the meeting of the British (United Kingdom) Manufacturers' Association of New Zealand the president, Mr. L. A. Edwards,, drew attention to the increasing cost of the public service. Expenditure,-hi) said,, was increasing, whether Government, municipal or individual. - Mr. Edwards pointed out that exclusive of the working railways there were 11,587 public servants in New Zealand in 1914 and that by 1929 the number had •• increased to 22,019. The salaries paid to the public service in 1914 totalled £1,914.016 and in 1929 the amount, was £5,421 J560. The cost of administration, was £1653 per 1000 in 1914 and HI 1929 it was £2463 per 1000. The -efficiency of the .public service had not inonsased, continued the speaker. In 1914 it took one public servant to 91 persons, bull in 1929 the proportion was one! to 66 parsons. "This standard of extravagance cannot stand,V declared Mr.. Edwards, who also said that municipal, costs ware more or less parallel with those of the public service. ■
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20427, 2 December 1929, Page 7
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189COST OF PUBLIC SERVICE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20427, 2 December 1929, Page 7
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