THE PUBLIC SERVICE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3102, 27 August 1913, Page 3

THE PUBLIC SERVICE.

PROVISIONAL CLASSIFICATION. (Fnon Ook Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON. August 20. Tho provisional classification of tho civil service by tho Public Service Commissioner was issued to-day as a supplement to tho Gazette. The document is a very comprehensive one, and classifies the whole service in tho fullest detail. There are 158 closely printed pages in the paper, which covers tho position of all servants in -18 departments. Tho particulars incorporated in each table include age, date of first appointment, length of service on March 31, 1913, position, proposed classification in divisions, class, or garde, salary, maximum for tho position examinations passed, and general remarks. Owing to tho tremendously technical and detailed nature of tho list its value must necessarily be that of an individual one to each servant. So far it is impossible to secure opinions from those as to how they will regard the result of the commissioners’ activity. One member of Parliament this evening, however, expressed tho opinion that appeals would bo very numerous.

The final section of tho list comprises detailed specifications of tho minimum and maximum rates of pay and annual increments for workers in the lower ranks of the service, such as messengers, tradesmen, farm workers, inspectors, etc., under tho Agricultural Department, and teachers at special schools.