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To His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of New Zealand, and Vice Admiral of the same, &c, &c., &c. May it please your Excellency,— "We have the honor to submit to your Excellency our Second Eeport, containing the list, promised in our Pirst Eeport, of those Officers who, we think, should be constituted Officers of the First Class in the Civil Service Bill proposed by us, and also containing the results of our inquiries into various Departments of the Civil Service of this Colony. Proposed Schedule A. to Civil Service Bill. Permanent Law Officer Eegistrar-General District Judges Assistant Treasurer Judges of Native Land Courts Geological Surveyor Eegistrar-General of Land Superintendent of Telegraphs Secretary for Crown Lands Auditor of Public Accounts Under Secretary Comptroller of Public Accounts Inspector of Customs Under Secretary for Colonial Defence. Secretary Postal Department Under Secretary for Native Affairs. "We take this opportunity of recommending an additional provision in our Draft Civil Service Bill to the effect that, should any Department in the Provincial Service be transferred to the General Government, the Governor in Council should have power to direct in what class each officer in such Department shall be placed, and thereupon the persons at the time holding office therein shall become subject to the provisions of the Civil Service Act, and also that the time during which they were in the Provincial Service may be counted in respect of superannuation. This latter provision should be made applicable to officers now in the Colonial Service who have been previously employed in the Provincial Service. "We would also recommend that the 12th section of the Bill, providing for compensation for abolition of offices, be so far modified as to show clearly that when an officer has received compensation for the abolition of his office, he shall not be allowed, in the event of his re-employment, to count in respect of superannuation the time during which he was previously employed in the public service, unless ho shall first re-pay the amount received by him as such compensation, or such proportion thereof as the Governor in Council may determine. Eeferring to the seventh paragraph of our First Eeport, wo now append in a similar tabular form the further information we have been favored with since the date of that Eeport. These rates confirm our statement that the public Servants are paid less than gentlemen engaged in commercial pursuits: —

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SECOND REPORT OF THE CIVIL SEEVICE COMMISSIONEES.