THE PUBULIS SERVICE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2107, 5 February 1908, Page 3

THE PUBULIS SERVICE.

NEW APR 0 i XTjIENI3. Press Association. WELLINGTON, Feb. 4. At a meeting of the Cabinet today it was deckled that the following appointments to the Public Service Classification Board should be made: —The Right Hon. Sir Joseph Ward (Premier), Colonel Collins (secretary to the Treasury), Mr. Hugh Pollen (U pder-Secr eta ry for Internal Affairs), Mr. H. J. H .Blow (Undersecretary for Public Works), Mr. i. H. Hamer (Under-Secret arv for Mines), Mr. \V. T. Glasgow (Secretary and Inspector of Customs), Air. J. D. Ritchie (Secretary for Agriculture), Mr. T. -E. Denne (general manager of the Tourist Department), Mr. G. Hogben (Inspector-General or Schools), Mr. E. Tregear (secretary to the .Labor Department), and Mr. John, Mackay (Government Printer). The duties of the Board will be to divide the service into three divisions, the first, including positions to which there is attached a maximum salary of £SOO or more, except such positions as the Board considers to be more suitably classified in the second division. It is left to the Board to decide what position shall be included in the second division, while the third division is to contain all positions to which 5s attached a maximum salary of less than :~oUO, which the Board dots not consider suitable for inclusion in the second division. There is provision in the Acts tor an appeal by Civil servants against the Board’s classification, and when the classification has been finally approved bv the Governor-in-Counc.I, it has to bo laid before Parliament, and comes into force upon the passing o a resolution to that effect by toe House of It epresen L a 1 1 ves. UuBoard to administer the Public Seivice Superannuation Fund will consist of ten members, namely, a .Minister of the Crown lour by the Governor-in-Council, two cite ted by the contributors in the 1 ost and Telegraph Department, and three by the contributors m otbei departments of the Civil ■ • - Minister who has been appointee. , ' , v ni ac+- ns chairman of the Boird, is the Hon. -Dr.. Findlay, Mmistorof Internal Affairs, while }he Cabinet decided toMiiy that A+iiftr YYip.iYil)oi*s> nominetod Crown should be Colonel Collins, Mr. J W Poynton (Public Trustee) Air. j! H. Richardson (Government nuance Commissioner), aud Mi. amiointetl a abort time ago as secretary' of the iSuperannuat n cation -Board and the Offices Gu.u untee Fund. ~ -