RETRENCHMENT.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2927, 18 April 1891, Page 2

RETRENCHMENT.

(by telegraph — press AssoriArioN.) Welling roN, Ij ist Night. The Government have decided nn mrtking further retrenchment, and tlio services nf a number of officers 111fnij^li>"it the colony in the Survey, Stock and L Departments are to bo dispen-ed with. Thi l savinpf is estimated at L'!) 000 per :>■ 111 <i>>i. Details are not to bo permitted to be made public until those retrenched receive notice from the Government. The saving effected in the Stock I >epartnient will be £2,-">00 per annum. Ten Inspectors and one cleric are to be dispensed with. The Land and Survey Departments are to be amalgamated. Mr \V. J. Elliott, Under-Secretary of Lands and Mines, ia to take the Under-Secret-iryship of Mines 'jnly. Thirty-three officers in the. Lands Department throughout the colony are to bo retrenched and twelve others transferred. The saving in the Land and Survey Departments will be £li,ooo per annum. The compensation to be paid m the Land, Stock and Survey Departments will amount to £4,500. Tho stock districts are to be enlarged, and twelve officers of the Crown Lands and Survey Department are to be transferied, including the following five chief inspectors, viz., Mr Humphreys, Auckland ; Mr Marchant, "Wellington; Mr Baker, Christchurch ; Mi Mueller, Westport ; and Mr Spencer, InvercargiU. Their destinations are not yet decided. The services of five Native Land Court judges are also to be dispensed with.