A RETRENCHMENT POLICY
SYDNEY, March 25
Four hundred and thirty-eight officers have been dispensed with in the Works Department under the Government retrenchment scheme, representing an annual saving of £141.000.
LONDON, March 23.
The Daily Mail, conwaenthig on the crash in New South Wales and the wholesale dismissal of civil servants, says it is the immediate and inevitable consequence of reckless finance, extravagance, and borrowing for unremunerative public works. Australia, is committing a fatal mistake in penalising energy and effort. - Credit cannot be restored until the population increases and legislators show signs of responsibility, and encourage enterprise and not repress it.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1851, 30 March 1904, Page 15
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101A RETRENCHMENT POLICY Otago Witness, Issue 1851, 30 March 1904, Page 15
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