PUBLIC SERVICE.
THE RETRENCHMENT SCHEME
£250,000 ' PER ANNUM TO BE' ' SAVED.
CONSIDERATION FOR THOSE WHO MUST GO.
REASON FOR THE CHANGES
(Per Press Association,)
INVERCARGILL, last night. Contrary to expectations the Premier m his speech last nigbt, did not enter vcry.fuly into details of the retrenchment scheme. , - :
7 In the ,. organisation bf tho public service, Sir \ Joseph Ward said, naturally 6iie s feelings; Were . sympathetically disposed to those who (might be unfortunate enough to come under the • retrench- 1 ment proposal, and tlie Government was anxious as lar o,s ppssiple to malse things! as! easy -as' it could. Still they had a duty, to perform, unpleasant thought it, Was. None, of those who would- ! oe ' a f V fepted .would be'Yturned. out; during t4iei winter, -or m such cases whWe Retire- 1 ment. frpm the ;is fp'iind sary!tbey would; be" compensated idx. tlie\ period which woiild cover ifT " Jle' was convinced that it was essential '• that, by amalgamation • and reto'enclnnienib they jriust relieve the. expenditure Yfrbm " !th'e consolidated ' fund ,to the extent of . a .quarter ■'* of a million per year. ; ''The argument, doubtless, is raided by some," he went oh to state, "as to Why, if . it were necessary previously to nave cumberous departments, which are fiow being merged, , they , are not being continued, Now my answer is tljat m Everything and necessity naturally alter' cases. A grout deal of excellent work -has been done by virtually all the departments that are beting * merged, and tike heads of , the deknow from me 'personally' that it ie nb,t against them or against their administration that the change- 1b being brought about, but because, of the fact thai tho. work of the departments having now beep .put into practical effect under the Acts governing the Avork the' departments can now be carried out with considerable economy by some of the larger departments to Avhich they have 'recently been attached, and which can carry on their new duties under the same law." . t
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11841, 3 May 1909, Page 5
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