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All employees of the New Zealand Reparation Estates except tlie General Manager are now to be included in the Western Samoan Public Service under the control of the Public Service Commissioner. The Police Force is placed under the direct control of the High Commissioner. Once every year the Public Service Commissioner is to report upon the efficiency and condition of the Western Samoan Public Service, and a copy is to be laid before both Houses of the New Zealand Parliament and before the Council of State and the Legislative Assembly of Western Samoa. Mr. R. A. Malone, a senior officer of the New Zealand Public Service who had some years ago served a term as Treasurer of Western Samoa, was appointed as Public Service Commissioner as from the Ist April, 1950. The Public Service During the Year As the references to conditions and to scales of salaries in the last annual report are also in general applicable during the year under review, but will rapidly become obsolete with the operations of the new Public Service Commissioner, they are not repeated in this report. The administrative structure of the Government of Western Samoa is shown diagramatically in Appendix II of this report. As at 31st March, 1950, the numbers employed in the then constituted Samoan Public Service are shown in the following table, grouped under the various branches. The table has been amended, when compared with that shown in previous reports, by the addition of a further column giving details of European officers recruited outside Western Samoa, who are mostly New Zealanders but are not seconded members of the New Zealand Public Service.

Comparisons of Totals

The above table shows the striking increase which has taken place in the number of Samoan and local European officers, and reflects the consistent policy of the Administering Authority.

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Branch. New Zealand Seconded Officers. (1) European Officers from Outside Western Samoa. (2) Local Officers of European Status. (3) Samoan Officers. (4) Total. Government House 2 9 11 Secretariat 2 2 5 4 13 Samoan Affairs 2 1 4 22 29 Treasury 2 11 1 14 Customs (and Harbour) 1 1 8 1 11 Justice, Labour, and Public Trust .. 2 1 5 3 11 Broadcasting 2 10 12 Education 1 22 27 475 525 Health 1 16 6 240 263 Lands and Survey2 2 4 2 10 Postal 2 10 5 17 Public Works 3 1 9 13 26 Radio 5 9 13 27 Police and Prisons 3 9 76 88 Agriculture 1 8 9 Totals 25 52 117 872 1,066

Year. Columns (1) and (2). Column (3). Column (4). 1938-39 63 87 488 1948-49 71 118 682 1949-50 77 117 872