SIR ROBERT STOUT ON "RETRENCHMENT."

Western Star, Issue 1120, 29 January 1887, Page 4

SIR ROBERT STOUT ON "RETRENCHMENT."

In his addr iss to the electors of j Dunedin on Tuesday evening, Sir j Kobrks SI out made the following pithy I remaers on retrenchment in the pub- j lie service : —I have said on more than j one occa -ion that retrenchment in the pullie service cm only come in three ways —in fact we may call it two ways : Firstly bv the General Government's work being les?ened, and secondly by the payment for its work being lessened. What does the first mean? Iftho General Government's work is lesseie I two things are meant: either local bodies perform some of its functions or people look to the Government for less —for fewer conveniences. Will they do so? Try them. If there is a" sitting of a court less than has been the custom in some country town, you would imagine from the memorials that reach the Government that some comet had struck that particular locality.—(Laughter). Withdraw a policeman from some outlying district, and what happens? Crime will, they say, become terribly prevalent her 3 if this policeman is removed. And in one district where there was a daily mail, although when we stopped it the letters were costing us 5s each for delivery, and we only got 21 for them, as soon as it was stopped wa heard that public business was greatly impeded and people were put to enormous inconvenience. If economy is wanted in the public service the people must demand it and be prepare.! to put up with fewer conveniences than they now possess. Three-fourths of all this talk about economy is unreal. It meaus— u Economise in some other person's district, but for Heaven's sake don't touch mine." I say it the people want economy and if they want to see our finances prosperous I want them to be prepared to say to the Government that they will be content to do with fewer conveniences than they now possess. The other way means to reduce the wages of the Government employes, and this generally in the House of Eepresentatives means ''You can reduce the salary of anyone if he does not reside in my district." If he does we iiud that he is a man with alargefamily,smaUsalary,with a heavy house rent, and dear food to pay for; and wo must not touch him. —'(Laughter.) And I will say that the higher and more responsible officers in tbe'Government service are not too well paid. Eor example, there is the secretary to the Treasury; his duties are more onerous and more responsible than those of any bank manager in a large city, and be does not get half the pay. I could so through a list of the higher offices and say these are not paid so well as men managing large commercial concerns in our midst; the work is harder, the responsibility more, and they have not half the pay. And if *y ou take tne lower grades of the service—policemen or warders, or railway employes—you will find that their salaries are not too high ; in fact, no more than sufficient to keep themselves and their famdies respectably. There are, I admit, some civil servants doing only clerical work who are paid, herhaps, a somewhat higher rate than similar servants ci banks and commercial houses, but you must remember it has taken some of them 20 Years of struggle before they got £2OO or £250 a year; and it is a very difficult thins io reduce their salaries, and very difficult indeed in many instances to deal witli them, or in fact to give tuom notice of dismissal. I do not envy anyouo who has to carry out that wo'ic. ido not think the colony ca.lis on a Minister, ev-m in making reduction;, t» be without a heart; and I think it his duty, when considering than iho men have done their work fairly and spent their lives in the service uf'the colony to deal with them as men ami not as stones.—Applause.

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A cockatoo which lias been in the Weutworth famihy during the past 90 years died at Syduey on the sth inst. W. C. "Wentworth, the statesman, owned the bird when be was a schoolboy, and taught it to speak. In ail probability it -was fully a century eld.

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Intelligence is to hand from Madagascar th:-t the town of Tamal.avc, which has been occupied by the French since the Hovas war, has now been evacuated by the French force.

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Mr Whiffen, liquidator of the, Commercial Bank estate, hopes to be able to pay the English creditors a dividend of at least 10s within a fortnight.