OVERSEAS OFFICERS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 134, 4 December 1930, Page 19

OVERSEAS OFFICERS

AUSTRALIA'S BILL

£96,000 A YEAR

An official return furnished to Mr. Crouch, M.P., in response to questions] asked by him iv the ■ House of Ecpre- J scntatives discloses that there are 260 officials in establishments maintained abroad by the Commonwealth Government at the expense of Australian taxpayers, says the Melbourne "Age." The distribution of these overseas officials and recipients of Commonwealth pay is as follows: —Great Britain, 24(5; United States, 11; Trance, 1; Canada, 2. Tho British list includes 40 cleaners. • The annual salaries account for the following disbursements: — London £81,212 New York 10,003 Paris SSI Canada 3,343 Total £00,309 A detailed list of Commonwealth officials in other countries and tho amount of salary in each case, including allowances, gives some of the following particulars: — HIGH COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE, LONDON. Sir Granvillo Ryric (High Commissioner), £5000. . Administrative. —T. Trumble (Official secretary), £2000; V. C. Duffy (assistant secretary), £972; 11. Parrands (assistant secretary), £948; K. .1. Carrucan (chief clerk), £832; H. K. Ellison (hospitality officer), £708; H. S. Ellison (private secretary-and assistant chief clerk) £554 13s 9d; A. J. Munro (0.C., library), £396. OFFICE OF COMMISSIONER-GEN-ERAL FOE AUSTRALIA. Isew York. —11. It. Brookes (retiring Commissioner-General), £5350; D. M. Dow (official socretaiy), £1278; J. U. Garsidc (accountant), £684; G. Tindale (Customs officer), £878; I<\ A. Pitman (Custom officer), £818; D. Mason (typist), £374; J. Mitchell (typist), £374; W. B. Barnett (typist), £374; G. Oliver (typist), £374; Anna Dangell (typist), £207; Carolyn Kenyon (typist), £192. Total, £10,963. France.— G. 11. Voss (Australian trade representative), £SBl ss. Canada.—L. E. Macgregor (Trade Commissioner for Australia), £2500; C. Critchley (secretary to the Trade Commissioner), £842. 'Total, £3343.