THE PUBLIC SERVICE.
STEADY GROWTH OF COST
UNJ (.'SUITABLE EXTRAVAGANCE
(Peb United Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, November 30. When stressing the need for lower production costs in the Dominion at the meeting of the British (U.K.) Manufacturers’ Association of New Zealand the president (Mr L. A. Eduards) drew attention to the increasing cost of the public service. He pointed out that, exclusive of the working railways, there were 11,587 public servants in New Zealand in 1014 and that by i 929 the. number had increased tj 22,010. The salaries paid to the public service in 1014 totalled £1,014,010, and in 1020 the amount was £.v12!,5i'0. The cost of administration was £1053 per 1000 in 1914, and in 1010 it was £2463 per 1000. Efficiency of servicj had not increased. In 1914, it look one public servant to 91 persons, but j n 1920 the proportion was one to 66 persons. “This standard of extravagance cannot stand.” declared Mr Edwards, whe also said that municipal costs were more or less parallel with those of the public service.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20889, 2 December 1929, Page 10
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175THE PUBLIC SERVICE. Otago Daily Times, Issue 20889, 2 December 1929, Page 10
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