A DUMPING GROUND

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2193, 4 July 1914, Page 6

A DUMPING GROUND

WHAT THE FOUND. A case which supplies a glaring, example of thn evils of haphaaarcl ediitrol in 'the Civil Service is referred to b< , tho Public Service Canwnisrionor in j his report. I "Recently," says the report,, "oiie of tho Commissioners mad.ft an inspection of a distriot ofßce, wliicli was foymct to bo in in unsatisfactory 'condition. On boing asked who was respans-iblo for tlio state of affairs, tho etflcer in j charge wrote as follows:—'The state- j of affairs in the —- office, is due prim* ! arily to three causes—First, tiio ps'ii.o- j tico that- obtained in tiio past of making -— ilio (luinpijig-ttj'osiTid far unsatisfactory officers, who shotiki Ijiis'b been dealt with sinwntaiily in the places from which'.they weK- transferred. Particulars of •'these vreuld ta'fcjo too lonn; to enumerate, but will Bo slipplied if necessary. Swondlv, 'io the practice of allowing offioers to gr&w up in this office, and remain hfrc nil tlvffir lives, without acquiring a t&ajjotent kimwledge of their dutie'a. TMrclly, to the very lax system of (IMcipUm? whwh obtained in this office fax the gonefai'icm 'preceding my advent here,' ' . "He then i;oes on 'to give exn.rapies of the lax system (.if ifecijifino, and states that the -recaid systems were inadequate, but claims -'that tio m\e is' . responsible for this, as theve \w& never been any uniform eystew ndaptefl in the various offices of th* Peiiartincnt."