NO WAITING.
CIVIL SERVANTS' RISKS. [From Our Correspondent.] WELLINGTON, March 14. Those Civil Servants fortunate -enough to get increases-of pay this year ; will • commence to handle the extra money after April I.' This seems a small thing to the outsider, but it is a great cnange from past practice. Parliament formerly controlled the salary of every Civil Servant and no increment, even a. statutory one, could Iks paid until Parliament voted it... Now the power of the purse strings has largely disappeared from tho popular Chamber. When it did prevail the annual increments were usually voted right at the end of'tho session. Last year they, came eight months after the date on which they were due, and the employees got their back pay from March 31. in one payment, but this year there will be no waiting.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11027, 16 March 1914, Page 8
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137NO WAITING. Star (Christchurch), Issue 11027, 16 March 1914, Page 8
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