' STUFFING' THE PUBLIC SERVICE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 20, 15 May 1902, Page 3

' STUFFING' THE PUBLIC SERVICE.

RIVERTON.

The following are the particulars regarding the grade, salary or wages, and religious belief of Government employes in the Riverton district : — Orepuki to Nightcaps — Stationmaster, £150 per annum , 2 cadets, XGO a year each ; 1 engine-driver, 12s per day ; 1 do, 10a per day ; 2 firemen, 9s per day each ; 2 cleaners, 4a per day each ; 1 guard, 9s ; 1 do, Bs. All of these are non-Catholics. River ton — Stationmaster, £195 a year ; cadet, £60 ; porter, 5s a day. Thornbury — Stationmaster, £185 a year; cadet, £50 ; porter 58 per day. Otautau — Stationmaster, £185 ; 2 cadets, £60 each. Out of 20 employes there are two Catholics drawing the princely sum of 10a per day between them. The employes in the Riverton Post Office art — Postmaster, £200 per annum ; cadet, £80 ; do, £60 ; do, £30. The two lowest salaried officials are Catholics. The clerk of the Magistrate's Court and a cadet at Riverton are non-Catholics. Out of the 26 Government employes enumerated above, four are Catholics, whose combined remuneration does not exceed £250 per annum.