A CIVIL SERVANT'S PETITION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1846, 22 November 1884, Page 2

A CIVIL SERVANT'S PETITION.

An extraordinary petition has been presented to the House by Dr Newman, irora William' Samuel' Grifien, clerk, of Wellington. The petitioner alleges that he has been for four years in the Government Insurance Department His salary when he entered was £156 per annum, and' during ..this length of service he only succeeded in obtaining one increase of salary,, viz., £l4, He is a married man. He also alleges that he has devoted about nino hundred hours of his time doing extra clerical work of the Department, for eight hundred of which he never received recompense. The Commissioner not only refused him any recognition of his zeal, but declined to forward his application to the Minister. From this time forward he complains that the accountant continually made" complaints regarding his work, His existence was made generally unpleasant, and it became clear to him that he was to be dealt with, similarly to several fellow-officers j, who had been compelled to leave the department throHgh petty annoyances. He accuses the accountant of introducing " de : moralising practices" of "mean and contemptible" espioftngo into the department, and after relating various grievances against the Commissioner, concludes by My position in the department has been rendered so unbearable that I resign on compulsion, and leave the question .of equitable compensation unreservedly in your handß, praying that you will recommend that Ireceive remuneration for 700 hours'overtime, afc.2s per hour. £7O, and. four months' pay tor four years' service, at £H 3s per month £56 12s total £126 125."