STUFFING' THE PUBLIC SERVICE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 27, 3 July 1902, Page 3

STUFFING' THE PUBLIC SERVICE.

WELLINGTON.

Bt this time our readers, who have followed the particulars regarding the Publio Service, whioh have appeared in these columns, are satisfied that if the Government departments are • stuffed ' with any particular denomination it is not with our co-religionists. The following particulars concerning the Post and Telegraph offices, the head office of the Railways, Government Life Insurance, and Department of Roads, Wellington, will bear out our contention. POST AND TELEGRAPH OFFICES. Grade. Salary or Wageß. Religion. Seoretary £700 per annum non-Catholio Supt. electric lines 650 „ „ Assist, sec and inspctr 600 „ „ Accountant 500 „ „ Chief postmaster 465 „ „ Inspector telegraphs 435 „ „ Offioer in charge (Tel) 425 „ „ Assist, accountant 400 „ „ 2nd clerk (G.P.O) 330 „ „ Chief clerk (G.P.0.) 330 „ „ 1 clerk 300 „ „ 1 » 275 „ 1 „ 260 „ „ 7 „ 250 „ each „ 1 ti 235 „ „ There is not a single Catholic among the 21 officers enumerated in the foregoing list. As it would take up too much of our space to give a list of individual officers in the Post and Telegraph department in Wellington we have bulked them according to salaries as follows : — 10 £220 per annum each non-Catholio 3 220 „ „ Catholio 1 210 „ non-Catholic 27 200 „ 2 200 „ „ Catholic 1 190 „ non-Catholio 42 180 „ 4 180 „ „ Catholic fi 170 „ „ non-Catholio 6 160 „ 6 160 „ „ Catholio 8 150 „ „ non-Catholio 4 US „ 1 148 „ Catholic 1 155 „ „ non-Catholic 5 HO „ 14 130 „ 3 130 „ „ Catholic 3 125 „ „ non-Catholio 1» 120 „ 1 120 Catholic 6 115 „ „ non-Catholic 2 110 „ 3 105 „ 18 100 „ 1 100 „ Catholic 1 95 „ ■* 90 „ „ non-Catholio 9 85 „ 21 80 „ 7 80 „ „ Catholic 5 75 „ „ non-Catholio 12 70 „ 1 70 „ Catholic 7 65 „ „ non-Catholic

G *ade Salary Religion 1 65 „ Catholic 6 60 „ „ non-Oatholio 1 60 „ 9 60 ntn >t non-Catholio 1 50 „ Catholio 1 *0 ,» non-Catholic Oat of a total of 298 employes, 32 are Catholics, or less than one in nine. The total amount of the annual salaries paid by the department is £44,240, of which the sum of £4235 goes to our coreligionists—that is, for every £10 9s paid in salaries and wagei Catholics receive £1. The general average salary paid to each employe is £148 9s 2d, the non-Catholic average being £150 7s lOd, and the Catholio average £152 6s lOd. This information has been taken principally from the Post and Telegraph Departmental list for last year. A few changes may have taken place in the meantime, but these would not alter the results to any appreciable extent. HEAD OFFICE N.Z. RAILWAYS. The approximate amount paid in salaries through the head office of the Government Railways is £25,000 per annum. We have been unable to get a list of the employes, but we are given to understand that the Catholics on the staff draw £1980 per annum, or about £1 in every £12 12s 6d. GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE DEPARTMENT. There are 131 employes, including temporary clerks, in the above department whose salaries amount to £22,908, or an average of £174 17s 4d. Of these, 14 are Catholics, who draw annually £1472. The average annual salary of each non-Catholio employe is £183 4s 3d, and of each Catholic employe"£los 2s lOd. For every £16 paid by the department, Catholics draw £1. DEPARTMENT OF ROADS. Htai Office.— There are 22 permanent and temporary employes in this department. Three of these are Catholics, and draw between them £357 4i per annum (an average of £119 Is 4d) out of a total of £3928 Bb, the general average being £178 Us Bd, and the non. Catholic average £188 2i Id. For every £11 paid in salaries or wages Catholics draw £1. LUtriot Office.— Ot the 29 employes in the District Office, fite are Catholic, who draw an annual sum of £702 8s out of a total of £5045 16s— about £1 in every £7. The average for our co-reli-gionists is only £140 9s 7d, againßt that of £180 19s 6d for nonCatholics. HASTINGS, HAWKE'S BAY. The following are the particular's regarding employes In the Post and Telegraph, Railway, and Justice Departments in Hastings :— Post and Telegraph Department— Grade. Salary or Wages. Religion. Postmaster £250 per annum non-Catholio Telegraphist 200 „ 170 „ I 2 Cadets 66 „ each „ Exchange clerk 70 „ Letter oarrier 125 „ Catholio » 70 „ non-Catholio Messenger 34 „ 31 n I 20 „ „ Railway— Stationmaster 200 „ Clerk 180 „ H ' HO „ „ Cadet 40 „ n Guard 7s 6d per day „ Porter 7s 7d „ |f 7s Od „ »» 7s Od „ Catholic » 6s 6d „ non-Catholio „ (junior) 4s Od „ |f ii 5s 6d „ f| Line Ganger 8s Od „ Catholio Platelayer 6a 6d „ »» 6s °d „ non-Catholic The sergeant and two constables at Hastings and the constable at Olive are non-Catholics. Of the four Catholics employed in the departments mentioned only one is a salaried officer, the others being wages men. The proportion of Catholics in the departmental is less than one in seven.