Losing Good Men.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1787, 27 January 1886, Page 2

Losing Good Men.

The present Ministry have a perfect horror of able men as officers in the Government departments. Anyway, they have contrived to get rid of a good many of the very best men who held posts in the public service, the Survey Department has been weakened and emasculated by tbe discharge of some of tbe ablest and most experienced officers, the result beiug that important work has fallen ten ibly into arrear, and a system of inaccurate '■ surveys by contract ” bus come into operation, tbe result of which is confusion as to boundaries, law suits, and general muddle. In tbe railway department some of the best officers have resigned and sought other fields for tbe exercise of their ability and experience. On this point the Evening Post remarks“ The system of railway management pursued in this colony is gradually driving the best of officers out of the depart* ment. It is only a few mouths ago that Mi Allison D. Smith, the efficient Locomotive Superintendent in Canterbury, accepted the office of Assistant Locomotive Superintendent of Victorian Hallways, and now we learn with regret that Mr Frederick Back, the able and popular manager of tbe Canterbury lines, is about to sever his connection with New Zealand Railways, to fill the post of General Manager of Government Railways 'in Tasmania. Mr Back will be a great loss to the department. Our neighbors evidently know how to appreciate our good officers better than our Government does.”