CIVIL CERVICE APPEALS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1871, 3 October 1913, Page 4

CIVIL CERVICE APPEALS.

: —: —o — : — THE LIST RECEIVED. Something like 1200 appoala have Leon, received by the Public Service Appeal Board against the classification by the Public Sorvico Commissioners. The number is not more tbnn was anticipated. Appeals in about the san:p proportion wero received in connection wii h the last classification of the Commonwealth Public Sorvico, and to :«inn nenror homo in the case of the c'" Edification of the New Zealand Public Service made under the Government Superannuation Act of 1007 —completed during the regime of the Ward ijoveru-mont—-tliero wore as many as 1750 appeals. The largo ; number of aj.|.ca]a which aro always likely to be received against any genoral classification is said to be mainly caused bv one Civil Servant hearing that another in tho v. me office or Dopartmont haß put in <in appeal. A common apprehension is that the appeal of a fellow-ofiicer may succeed to tho detriment of tho Civi! Servant who does not lodgo an appeal likewise. So ho also puts in an appeal to even up tho chances. As a matter of fact, each case is considered on its merits, and making an appeal to tho board can have littlo effect if there is not a cuso behind it. I