ALLEGED HARDSHIP

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11252, 3 July 1922, Page 8

ALLEGED HARDSHIP

CIVIL SERVICE WAGE CUT. . The hardship which the cut in the wages of the lower-paid civil servants is causing was brought under the notice of a “Wairarapa Daily Times” reporter by a local resident, whose 60ii was “promoted” from Masterton some time ago to a northern town. When the Masterton youth was installed as a clerk in tho public service office to which he was transferred, he found that the work and arrears of work were such that for three months past he has had to work ten or eleven hours a day to keep the work from getting ahead of him. The ex-Mastertonian, who is a particularly smart youth, and who takes a keen interest in his work, has had the cut in wages applied to him, and he now finds that ho is receiving £5 a year less than he did as a cadet in Masterton. Out of his £2 6s per week he pays £1 10s for board and 2s 6d for washing, leaving him 12s 6d per week out of which to clothe himself, pay superannuation, insurance, etc. As the youth is unablo to carry on in the circumstances, there is nothing left for him but to resign and find some other employment which ia more remunerative. Such a caso is certainly cue of hardship, and is not liicely to attract our best youths to the Civil Servica.