LIAISON OFFICERS
BEST MEN FOR'JOBS GOVERNMENT'S ATTITUDE RIGHT OF FREE SELECTION [by TEL KG It A I'll —SPECIAL REPORTER] WELLINGTON. Thursday An emphatic statement that th 6 Government must be free at any time to select the best person for any particular job was made by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser, when replying in the House of Representatives to a question by Mr. W. J. Polson (Opposition —Stratford) about the appointment of liaison officers in Government departments. "Many experienced officers in the Public Service feel perturbed when they sec the Government appointing outsiders aliead of them," Mr. Poison said. "I am not suggesting that there is anything wrong with the actual appointments, but I am trying to preserve the rights of officers who have been many years in the service." The Government must retain the right to make appointments from outside the Public Service if it knew of no one who could do the work better, Mr. Fraser said. In the Labour Department where liaison officers had been appointed it was because they were qualified for certain duties which did not come within the general run of work ot departmental officers.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23718, 26 July 1940, Page 4
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