More About the Public Service

New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 633, 17 August 1951, Page 20

More About the Public Service

KEEPING the Public ‘Service on its Toes is the title of the next talk in the series on the Public Service .which YA and YZ stations are broadcasting at 9.15 p.m. on Fridays. This will be given on August 24 by Dr. J, L. Rabson, Assistant Secretary for Justice. Dr. Robson will discuss staff training and general efficiency. There will not be a broadcast in this series on August 31, the eve of the General Election; but on September 7, A. B. Taylor, Finance Officer and Accountant to the Treasury, will tell those who find the money something about the way in which it is spent. On Friday, September 14, the subject will be The Public Service Pays Its Way, an account of the work of trading departments by L. R. Sceats, Supervisor of Programme Organisation for the Commercial Division of the NZBS. The merits of public enterprise on the one hand and private enterprise on the other will be stated by D. W. A. Barker, Controller of the Investigating

and Research Division of the Treasury, and William Machin,°a past-Presidént™ of the Associated Chambers of -Commeree, on Friday, September 21. Chair--ing this discussion and taking part in it will be Ross Fraser, who has held high executive positions in both public and private enterprise. On Friday, September 28, Dr. W. B. Sutch, Advisory Economist to the Department of Industries and Commerce, will discuss What the Public Servant Owes His Masters. He will sum up the findings of the other speakers and look forward, and will examine not only the duties and responsibilities of public servants but also their rights. Listeners’ questions on public service policy and practice-as distinct from Government policy-will be answered by a panel of speakers on Friday, October 5, and if necessary, by a second panel the following Friday. The public will be represented by counsel, who will see to it that questions are answered adequately.