CIVIL SERVICE REGULATIONS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 79, 10 April 1913, Page 4

CIVIL SERVICE REGULATIONS.

The regulations recntly issued by the Public Service Board have been very favourably received throughout the Do minion by those most affected by them, and it is generally conceded that the new rules are characterised by moderation and good sense. The alleged inquisition which it was reported would take place, in the form of a personal examination, is quite mythical, and 'there is no such proposal in the regulations issued with regard to examinations to \qualify, the conditions are, in reality, improved, and it is now possible for an officer to reach a salary of £260 per annum without necessarily passing the Senior Civil Servic examination, a test which was formerly insisted upon. To substitute practical tests of fitness rather than more or less useless examinations oi a largely theoretical nature, saeins to have been the aim of the Commissioners in framing their regulations, and at this nobody can cavil. Public officers should be above the reach of political considerations and the wisdom of placing them upon such a footing ought to bo apjmrent.. It was predicted in some quarters that civil servants would be entirely out of sjmpathy with the Board, but the evidence, so far, is quite (be other way.