BRITISH CIVIL SERVICE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 888, 6 August 1910, Page 5

BRITISH CIVIL SERVICE.

APPOINTMENTS WITHOUT EXAMINATION. .

By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright.

London, August 4.

Returns show that since the year 1906 the Government has awarded 873 positions in the Civil Service without examinations taking place. The persons so appointed draw m salaries tho sum of £239,775 annually.

MORE AND MORE OFFICIALS. Up to the end of 1909, in consequence of the legislation passed by the Liberal Government (writes the London Dally Mail"), 1154 fresh officials, permanent or temporary, were appointed in Great Britain at a total cost of ,£130,212; and, to quote from a Government return, as the great majority of tlip Lew officers Hie leceiving salaries rising annually on a scalo . , . . the total cost will, no gre'atly increase in course of time." The main Departments lvlueh have appointed new officials,' with the total amounts of their salaries, are as follow:— Officials. Salaries; Post Office 303 ' Board of.Trade 2/- 3->«° Inland Revenue 2<!5 20.021 Public Trustee 60 "'O" 6 Locrl Government, Irelan(J 53 6,054 Board of Agriculture... 46 12,918 Office of Works-.. 37 5.047 Customs and Exciso ... 25 Court of Criminal •Appeal. 9 &&*< Theso official Genres are confined to the consequences of "new legislation. They show nothing of tho normal and constant growth of officialdom or of tho officials appointed under Departmental regulations which called for no Act of Parliament. The disquieting facts bearing noon this point arc that tho Civil Service Estimates, which include the salaries" of a! Government officials, rose from 19 millions in 1895 to 421 millions in 1910.