BONUS FOR PUBLIC SERVANTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 September 1920, Page 5

BONUS FOR PUBLIC SERVANTS.

CASE OF SALARIES ABOVE

A further statement regarding the cost of living bonus for public servants has been made by the-Prime Minister, in, reply to a question whether it is intended to pay officers of the Public Service whose salaries exceed £SOO the additional £SO.

Mr. Massey said it had been decided to take no action in respect of departmental heads and other officers of the administrative division. Their salaries were specially appropriated, and any necessary adjustments could be made in the Supplementary Estimates. The eanie thing applied to professional officers in the Public Service. There remained, however, a small sectron of the classified staff whose salaries, were according to the Public Service scales. The. salaries of these officers did not in any case exceed £730 per annum, and the majority received between ,£SOO and £6OO.

"The effect of limiting the increase 'to officers receiving £SOO per annum has been," said Mr. Massey, "to bring an officer at £SOO up to £550, while- his senior officer, under whose control he hj, "remains at £550. This is considered undesirable, and, in view of the further fact that officers whose salaries exceeded £SOO per annum were excluded from the operation of the former £ls cost of living bonus, it has been decided that the operation of the bonus provision shall be extended to all officers whose salaries are paid in accordance with, the classification scales, but not otherwise. The same course will be followed in the case of the Railway Department (excluding sub-division 1 of the First Division) and the Post and Telegraph Department." ;