CIVIL SERVANTS' PRIVILEGES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 511, 19 May 1909, Page 4

CIVIL SERVANTS' PRIVILEGES.

n .Sir,—So. much stir is abroad, through the Civil Servants, that 'the privileges alloweu to different'.Departments': am brought to light, and comment, is passed; ' Railway' officials havo.Jthe privilege, so it is. understood, of a.free.pass when journeying during their holidays and a rebate for their families, alio other privileges. ~: '< .■',■•■• . Now,, if a Civil Servant ; belongs to anv other he gets no'prTvilegis' at : all . Then, why should a, railway official f A Customs .officer can't "get an/reduction or a Land; Department officer land.olli bettor terms than: any other person. In Wauganui wo have a priva I owned, tmpot ramshaekled line, and the of. ; ncials_of this antiquated concern arc even allowed to. obtain great: concessions. I believe .quarter faro when they'travel on the Government railways, Why ?: and by what process of; reasoning' should they get anv privilege at all/ when now wo are tSld that trains aro being curtailed all.over the colony to Department pav? It is onlv reasonable to maintain' that all Civil Servants should be placed on the samo footing c,V7^f P i3!r l^r 'i h6 T ' E l nv . ile e es Granted to out' siders abolished.—-I am, eto. ■.„■ ■'* ~, r ,_ ■ FAIR DUES. Wanganui/May 15.,. :