PUBLIC SERVICE STAFFS.
DEMAND FOR REDUCTION.
COMPLAINT OF BUREAUCRACY.
[by telegraph.— own correspondent.] CHRISTCHTJRCE. Friday.
An appeal for drastic reduction in the staff of the public service of New Zealand was made by Mr. H. D. Acland in his presidential address before the Christchurch Citizens' Association.
" The new Government has intimated that further taxation is inevitable," said Mr. Acland. " Why cannot a drastic reduction be made in the public service of the country ? Departments have grown out of all proportion. to population and the necessity for further taxation means less spending power for individuals. Thus we get less work offering and more unemployment. " Unemployment so caused," he added, " may not be sudden, but it will be real. I myself know of large numbers of cases where the special land tax increase of last year resulted, in a reduction in the number of men employed on farms. " Let us hope," he said, " that the new Government is sufficiently strong to demand a reduction in staffing and expenditure. It would appear, however, that with democracy, there goes hand in hand the new despotism of bureaucracy, which is far more despotic than that of the medieval kings."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20602, 28 June 1930, Page 14
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