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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume v, Issue 419, 27 July 1880, Page 2

The Rangifikei Advocate has the following sensible remarks as -to the proposed and mtich-talked-of«reductions in our admittedly costly Civil Service. Every one who knows anything of the inper working of the Public Departments" is aware that though snmc one or two struggling clerks may be dispensed with, and the.'Salaries of some few others may, be cut down to starvation level, there is ■no intention.to any of the. excrescences, of the_serviqe, to weed*ou£.any of the numerous'cirones, whQ %old'valuable sinecures, ,, , and if ahy Ministry*, haft slightest intention of acting 1 itf> such,a manner, ouf VcontemporaryV is"'' rikftf in saying that in each individual instance the very members who: ar3 loudest iv crying out Vor retrenchment', the abstract would' at once bring pressure to bear in, favor t of .their The Advocate sayls v */} t IK b>};f : ■ '"The olaVolcl dry|fojj retrjmchra'enthas once more beeV7aieedliuJ?erifaWmVan9 Spartan lms been the of ne,a.r|jL every speaker dofing fidence'f debase;iyherl''dMl'in& dKUK* tW? matter: 'The Government must harden its heart;' ' The gentlemen on. tha, Treasury I benched must cut away* the costty-ekcres-cences of the Civil Service with an unflinching hand,' etc-., etc. -It sounds-nice to-the-nearly ruined, |,axpayers, ..who ,l^pp^n f tck hear it or Sjee. itjin pririt/but it en'd|'tliere; ; for the moment i start' is 'made; and! any particular officer or-number of pffiqera selected for dismissal, then the tfouble he-* #ins. Up rush excited members, of both; "Houses to whom the victims of cosn| try's exigencies tire related or coriWcted. Ministers are waylaid in their rooms ; in "the lobbies ; in the street; are followed to their homes, and in some cases dragged from their- beds to hear reasons why 'little Limpet' of the Circumlocution Office must; not be done away with, and Tvhy ' old Mngatherirn 1 of the; Fhml Sealr ing Wax Office should not, like his paleo zoic namesake, become extinct. So long as economy is only affirmed ac a general principle, mombers are quite' enthusiastic in'their resolves to cut down expenditure, but the moment it goes beyond that'they find fifty excises why it cannot be applied in any particular instance..; Tt is not in outlying idistricts that the evils of extrayagnnpe tire, seen, as we all know how "badly paid and hardly worked most of the Government officials-are on. this Oortst, but it is quite otherwise in Wellington and other large centres of-population, w'jere;;pa]atial Crovernment Buildings swarm with dandified clerks and aristocratic-looking heads' of .-departments, not one of whom'have* ever done a dny's hard work in their lives, or ever intend to if • itiey- bkve any say in the matter." " • ■ ' ■' - • •