MR SWANSON ON CIVIL SERVICE PENSIONS.

Waikato Times, Volume XII, Issue 964, 27 August 1878, Page 3

MR SWANSON ON CIVIL SERVICE PENSIONS.

In the_ discussion inpommittee oh the Civjl j3emce tt Arnihendruent Bill,. Mr Swanson said he considered Civil. Servants-were: already well, enough oft* The 1 compbl theih to makh for t themablvesi” He object’ lating pensions on the basis of the highest Office. He 1 did’hot see why provincial officers should be entitled to; their allowances j ■ their I ime should,be counted from a the time when they joined the General Government. -Provincial Servants in Auckland were not entitled to pensions, and yet they performed their work better tli an General Government officials. The Civil Service Bills formed perfect study in. themselves.. In, 1871, . whole ’ elections. turned , on. Civil; Service question, and the House then determined to the c:st of pensions, it .having been found that they s amounted, to * hundreds d of : thousands l of pounds. It was said that these Civil Servants, were • pissed-' i&t6 , 'th : b service. He would like to see that. He would like to see the > press gang abon t. His sympathy was not with Civil Servants, but with the Carpenters and bricklayers of Auckland, ‘ who, before he same away, worked only two days a week in consequence of the weather. The present Government had promised retrenchment, but so far had shown very little of it. . .