FURTHER GOVERNMENT RETRENCHMENT. WELLINGTON, Last Night.
The Government are maturing a scheme of careful retrenchment in various departments of the Civil Service, and the estimates for the coming financial year will show material reductions in several directions. Ihis is necessarily a work of some time and much difficulty. In the introduction of a system of general retrenchment, the i > overnment are persis tently working out the practical details of the economical measures contemplated, it is well known that large savings have been effected in the working of the railways, and this is also found practicable in many other brancher of the public service. The officers dispensed with will be transferred to other stations or departments whenever practicable. Other economical plans are under the consideration of the Ministry. The total number of Volunteers in the colony is 8247, exclusive of cadets, who number 19. »1. His Excell Q ncy vHts the Napier races, which takes place on the 15th instant. The s.s. Hiuemoa left for Opunake this evening with the wives and families of the men already sent to the Plains ; also a furthe detachment of the unemployed.
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Waikato Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1202, 11 March 1880, Page 3
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187FURTHER GOVERNMENT RETRENCHMENT. WELLINGTON, Last Night. Waikato Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1202, 11 March 1880, Page 3
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