NON-POLITICAL CONTROL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19454, 13 October 1937, Page 13

NON-POLITICAL CONTROL

DOMINION CIVIL SERVICE ASSURANCES OF MINISTER ADDRESS TO ASSOCIATION, (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The Public Service Association conference was opened to-day by the Attorney-General, the Hon. H. G. R. Mason. The public service cbmmissiners were also present. Mr. Mason congratulated the association on its continued success and' increasing membership which, he understood, was now about 90 per cent of the Civil Service membership. The Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, had already indicated to the' association his support of the policy of non-political control of the Government services in New Zealand. The traditions of the services were as high as the corresponding services in the Motherland. One of the matters requiring attention was the effect of the housing shortage on some civil servants. In some isolated places where there was no demand for houses civil servants found it almost impossible to find accommodation. The association's representations on behalf of the civil servants affected had received a very sympathetic hearing from the Prime Minister and would not be overlooked when the difficulties facing the Housing Department were overcome. The association had been promised that the superannuation scheme would receive attention as soon as the major national scheme was disposed of and j had the assurance that its funds would not be merged in the national scheme.