PUBLIC SERVICE REGRADING

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 40, 10 November 1937, Page 3

PUBLIC SERVICE REGRADING

— Press Association.)

Commissioners Say Task Is Almost Completed REVISION 0F SALARIES

(By Telegraph-

WELLINGTON, This Day. .. "The general regrading of the Public Service has been a task of considerable magnitude, but it is now practically completed," state the Public Service Commissioners, Messrs. T. Mark and J. H. Boyes, in their annual report, which was presented in the House of Eepresentatives. "It has been necessary for the Commissioners. and Public Service inspectors to visit both Islands extensively," the report adds. "Visits to out.ying districts have served. to remove the feeling that officers1 in places remote fro'm Wellingtbn are overlooked when promotions and regrading are pendiug. ' ' 'Alt'hough many officers took the' opportiiliity of making -personal - repre-'" sentations, generally speaking the service was found to be contented." Disciissing the 'salaries of Public Servants, ; the report . tates that very few inereases in the . salaries o.f administrative -officers have been,approv-, ed during the past few years. The position-has been accentuated by the payment of . salaries to roveral reeent appointees "to new administrative positions, far in excess" of those paid to p'ermanent heads'of long service and'; in charge of important departments of State. '.'•••• ' • ■ "When .a comparison. is made. with the salaries pdid to occupants of, managerial positions . in outside ■ firms . .and to exeeutive..and professional eqiployqes of local - bodies; and quasi-Goyern-:-ment,- concerps,; control : boards,..etc., {it is olbyious. that .the cdrresjionding ' ser-> vice rates,are Tqlatively low. ,'Tf tke," Public Seryice is * to . _ be made ' attrac-' tive .to .men of capacity,-- it is' all im-. portaht" tliat -; the rempiieratipn' of officers ; ejiefcisjhg 'important ' administrative functions • should be adequato and cdmmensur'ate with the duties." :