State Servants.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13704, 19 September 1908, Page 4 (Supplement)

State Servants.

SOME OF THE SALARIES. According to the Budget estimates this year there are, in round figures, 18,000 permanent employees of the JSt*te, whose salaries range from £3l per , year to £l2ao per year. This list, does not, however, include teachers of primary and secondary schools—a very formidable addition—neither 4000 odd railway employees, who are not on the D—-5 list, cooperative and other labourers, temporary and extra clerks and employees, nun engaged in the iitate coal mines, and inanv. others.

In 1905 Mr Herdman. asked in Parliament for a return showing (a) the total number of civil servants in the employ of the- Crown oa March 31, 1904; (b) the number of temporary clerks, and tc) the number of persons other than civil servants, temporary clerks and school teachers ; but. including men employed on pub, he works in receipt- of pay from the Crown. Tho return furnished disclosed a total of 22,739. The Government Departments since then—four years ago—have increased considerably and more casual hands have been employed. School teachers are not included in the return, the railway employees have largely in-crea.v-d, and the post and telegraph figures have gone up by over one thousand. The total number may, therefore, be given as near 40,000. Another return mipplfed at Mr Herdmau's request- gave tho total wages paid to the 22,739 employees for the year 1903 4 (again excluding StatA school teachers). The amount was £2.830,668 lis lid. With these figures some id>-a can iw fontit'd of the annual wages Ibt of the Stato at the pr.-sent time, with the additiomd nnploymrtnt given. It is also interesting to calculate the large number of people there must 1m- in the country either directly or indirvctly attadu-d by financial interest to the State.

Following .ntv some < <>f the higher-f;ilari«-<l officials : —Central Manager of K-iilu-ny*, £l?-50 jtcr aimuui, Solu-itor-(ltrn-ral £IOOO. lialiwologi.M at Kotnru.i £IOOO. <ine; h'.d:h f.fhior £9OO. ijinl'i-ctor (M-ljvr.tl of Mental til* £925. (Jowrjim-nt insurnnco fiimniUsimtt-r £IOOO, Secretary to I he Tr«'.i>ury £950, Secretary to tiio Post, and Telegraph lvp.-ir! tn-ta £9CO. S'-rct-iry for and lii>j»<tor of Custom.* £".'■o, I'nd-r SoTt-'.rirv fur Crown £7M), Sum-y»>r CfiK-ral £7OO, Sfrfrslary for Agriculture £62.'). Valuer » o-ner.-tl £Vt?'). 1 sj»j.eitor (««-n*-ral of Kihicaiit/n £7.i:>, ■ 1 !}••[■•' '<> i ( irner.ni <>f Jfo=»j>i!a;is and ('hari'ahlc Institution* £BOO. Land |'«r chas*- Officer £OOO, I'ublte Tro.«Wi £i?00, a.-iuiry of t!i<* (lov.-rnajcnt pxrimi'titiv £B7;>. S- i-r« t ary of the (invt-ru mens )s»qnu><->' £?> X manager <»f Wellington di«iri<.-i. agency £7OO. C}.-n« ral Mat;.i2»-r of the Flte !*<:• jar.itvrnt £BOO. Land and Jno-?tn<* Tax l '<inimis*i<itier £si-0. A*ai*»jmt-S» , ereiary and nf sh<? and TVl^grapis £7.V), Inspector of KWtnr Line* (Pfirf and Telegraph l)cjiirisrj«-n! j £5K>. itinera! of the Totin»i n<-p.irim< nt and Industrial and I)c|artn»cnt £7OO, accountant of the

Railway Department £7OO, Chief Engineer to. the Railway Department. £BOO, Government Printer £650, Commissioner of Stamps £7OO, Under-Secretary for Native "Affairs £6OO, Oiief Judge of tie Native .Land Court £7OO, Under-Secre-tary for Justice £650, Inspector of Prisons £7OO, Commissioner of Police £6OO, Under-Secretary for Mines £650, Director of Geological Survey £BOO-r-and so on. Slany of these positions entail a considerable amount of travelling about and then, of course, "allowance" and expenses are added. Magistrates' are paid from £450 to £650 (one Wellington magistrate receiving the last-mentioned sum), one magistrate and District Court Judge in the Auckland district draws £7Co,and another Magistrate and District Court Judge in the Christeburch and Westland district £l5O. The Registrar-General receives £560. In the Defence Department a military member, of whom there are three, has a s'alaiy of £550, and house allowance (£75). The headquarters staff get from £215 to £SOO. and house allowance. A major of the Permanent Force receives £325 with house allowance, and an officer commanding a volunteer district £350, and free quarters.