The Overgrown Civil Service.
It appears that this colony possesses 1807 Civil Servants, receiving salaries to tho amount of JJ().‘M,F>H7. And yet Sir Julius Vogel says there is no room for retrenchment in this direction. Many of these oflicers arc very poorly paid, and not a few far too highly paid. Hut tho great blot on tho Civil Service system is that a whole lot of unnecessary work is created and alotef men kept to do it. (Judor a proper system the work could bo lessened and (simplified, and one third of the present number of olhcers could do it easilv.
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1826, 30 April 1886, Page 2
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101The Overgrown Civil Service. Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1826, 30 April 1886, Page 2
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