THE PUBLIC SERVICE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9442, 12 May 1909, Page 8

THE PUBLIC SERVICE.

PROCESS OF REORGANISATION Per Press Association. Wellington, May'll. The Prime Minister told a representative of the New Zealand Times to-night that the Government ;had already Saved £187,000 per annum in the remodelling of the Public Service. This was not in salaries alone, money having been saved in other -directions fcftaa by retirement of officers. A further series of rearrangements was announced by Sir Joseph. Mr J. Eman Smith, Registrarjof Old Age Pensions, has retired from that position and becomes Resident Commissioner at Cook islands, Lieut. Q. F. O. Campbell, late Valuer-General, is to take charge of the State Fire Insurance Department. The Inspector-Generalship of the Forces, in®tbe absence of 001. Davies in London for 12 months, will not he specially filled, the Government having withdrawn the temporary appointment of Colonel Campbell to that position. The position of Chief Health Officer is to be abolished and Dr. Mason visits London for 12 months on special work for the Government. The Public Health and Hospitals and Charitable Aid Departments will come under the administration of the Internal Affairs Department, of which Mr Hugh Poilen is Under-' Secretary. Mr D. Souter, Chief Clerk of the Mental Hospitals Department, will ba placed in direct, control of that Department, also the Hospital and JOharitabie Aid and Public Health Departments, as a branch of the Internal Affairs Department. Dr. Mason, when in England, will investigate complaints about the condition ot boned meat sent from New Zealand to England and inquire into certain criticism concerning some of the Dominion’s frozen products. He will also examine English emigrants before their departure for New Zealand 1 eo as 'to prevent people suffering from disease coming out It is not intended to fill the position of the late Mr H, J, Matthews, Chief Forester. H, A. Goudie, nurseryman, in charge of Rotorua plantations, takes charge of the forestry operations in the North Island, and B. G. Robinson, nurseryman in charge at Tapaaui, takes ■over the South Island section of the work. The Valuation Department has passed under the control of Mr P. Heyes, Commissioner' Mr

A. E, Fowler, formerly Chief Clerk, has joined the A|idit Department.