THE PUBLIC SERVICE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2499, 12 May 1909, Page 5

THE PUBLIC SERVICE.

FURTHER RE-ARRANGEMENTS

[Per Press Association.]

WELLINGTON May 11. The Prime Minister told a rejiresentative of the “New Zea’and Times” to-night that the Government had already saved £187,000 per annum in the remodelling of the Public Service. Tliis was not in salaries alone, money having been saved in other directions than by the retirement of officers. A further series of re-arrangements was, announced by Sir Joseph. Mr..J. Eman Smith, Registrar of Old Age Pensions, has retired from the .position, and becomes Resident Commissioner at the Cook Islands. Lieutenant-Colonel G. F. C. Campbell, late Valuer-General, is to take charge of the State Eire Insurance Department. The InspectorGeneralsliio of the Forces, in the absence of Colonel Davies in London for 12 months, will not be specially filled, the Government having withdrawn the temporary appointment of LieutenantColonel Campbell to that position. The position of Chief Health Officer is to beabolished, and Dr. Mason visits London for 12 months on special work for the Government. The Public Health and Hospitals and Charitable Aid Departments will come under the dmmistration of the Internal Affairs Department, in charge of Mr. Hugh Pollen, r-\ Under-Secretary. Mr. D. Scuter, chief clerk of the Mental Hospitals Department, will.be.placed in direct control of that Department, also the Hospit'] and Charitable Aid and Public Hea th Departments, as a branch of the Internal Affairs Department-. Dr. Mason, when in England, will investigate the complaints about the condition of boned meat sent from Nwv Zea’and to England, and inquire into certain criticisms concerning some of the Dominion’s frozen products. He will also examine English 'emigrants before their departure for New Zealand so as to prevent people suffering from disease from coming out. . Mr. F. S. Pope, Secretary for Agriculture, becomes general manager of the Tourist. Department, with Mr. C. R. C. Robinson, formerly chief clerk, in direct* charge of that section of the Agricultural Department’s responsibilities as director of tourist and health resorts. It is not intended to fill the position of the late Mr. H. J. Matthews, Chief Forester. Mr. H. A. Goudie, nurseryman in charge of the Rotorua plantations, takes charge of the forestry operations >n the North Island, and R. G. Robinson, nurseryman in charge at Tapanui, takes over the South Island section of- the work. The Valuation Department has passed under the control of Mr. P. Heyes, Commissioner of Taxes. Mr. A. Fowler, formerly chief clerk, nas joined the Audit Department.