THE PUBLIC SERVICES.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 January 1918, Page 5

THE PUBLIC SERVICES.

STATEMENT BY SIR JOSEPH ilhriatchurcli, Jan. Speaking at the Post and officers' reunion last night, Sir Ward said th« Government' last three years, as the outcome war, bad created and had to a number of employees times numerically greater than of the Public Service, and n times greater than the number; Railway Department. It was futile for anyone to believe that of tin a. the Public Service, as it i normal times, could be carried easily by the Government as imagined. It could not be, and l *"b« the reason that the men and' from end to end of tfia l to win the war. They wanted war before anything else, And 1 I'easou the Government was taking the construction of any building in any portion of the that could possibly be put off the war. An to the classification of the Pout and" Department, Sir Joseph Ward' could not be done separately- If'tt to bo done, the whole of the vice would have to be i-e-clasettfld. 1 could not be done except on tion, one that would not be to them,\and that was the of bonuses. He believed it for them to have the present cortdilti<jtf|M of affairs rather than th* of a state of affairs which night T#ulft9 in heavy retrenchment and large lions. He said in all smceHtjr' lt>«*JH must not try to drive things. H %> did try to drive things, then he, tor Would not yield unless be could get It was safe. It was because the <tavwrq3|H ment wanted to-get the country and right for the people that «on*B <IS@H the things they had been pressed to 4h»| had not been done ~ |j|M AFTER WAR CONDITIONS,'* 'mM "In the coime <tf a <*nrt time.'V 6«eSM tinucd Sir Joseph Ward, "tbo people djM this country will be called upon to W*|B vide another ten million to -enable War payments to'be made—during ifetwfl or July next at the latest. Then, If war is unhappily going on .after BiMlB period, we will have to as]; this countwiH provide many more millions than iffiH will have provided this vear. ■ The te"ftjH graph messenger and the bumblort "OmH in tlic service is as much concerned 4§h| the preservation of this country the war is over at is the oldest A»d <lKm|H responsible in New Zealand. It 'alwrcfl after-war conditions that have looked forward to by the and Parliament. These condition* 9wUgil be without praallcl as .far si 'ISShH country is concerned, and yon men tosw|H Public Service, sharing vour portion; responsibility, nave got to be. ready' M~fl face it with the view of seeing that tfewU prosperity of the country continue*," SlfrjH Joseph Ward went on to «;iy that tbfVjß country had got to have 'small lan&'Jß settlements and an enormously increarod"3H value of exports to hrin? .in increased amount of nionnv into £ho!|jH country, so as to meet our oblieaftonipH wiihouti having io re«ort to crUßhirjgjJß