Public Service Association.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 501, 2 September 1890, Page 2

Public Service Association.

A meetino is to be held at the schoolhouse this evening to consider the question of forming a branch of the proposed Public Service Association. The objeo s are set forth in a circular copies of which have been distributed throughout New Zealand. TH- principal objects given are:— 11 To vindicate the rights of the Service, and uphold its claims; to disseminate a better conception of the work of the Publie Service; to promulgate the the unconteeted opinion of statesmen ol all ages that a country which does not respect and fairly treat its Public Service, opens the door to maladministration and corruption, and saps at the root of that energy, peal, and high standard of performance of duty without which no country can be well served or well governed ; to urge that the record of 'he Public Service of New Zealand ba, Jieen such as to give no cause for.de! raction’; to cieim that the Public Service of the Colony should open a well-assured and honorable career, and that the attainment of distinction therein by long and faithful duty is deserving of at least «• j much honor and reward are acoorded to those who beenme emin in any other profession ; to obtain recognition of the principle that there is no higher flsld of duty f>r a man (han to faithfully serve the country; and of its corollary, th- the pon’tion of sueh a man should be held in the esteem and given the consideration due to it. To promote by every possible means and influence the passing of such a C stitution as b been granted to the Civil an.' Public Service of England, and of nearly a’l her Colonies—a Constitution that shall establish, once and for a’l. the position, rank, and statu, oi the New Zeeland Fe-iCe, and of all its various branches sod members ; shall lay down oomprthensiveand well defined lines of classification, promotion, salaries, organization, and general satvice ; .ball free the Service from the injurious it fluence, ot patronage, and from the possibility cf unnecessary and uncalled-for interf-rence, at the instigation of political or party motive,a; and shall ensure that just and honorable ind.pcru dance which is 'ulieody granted in other parti of the Empire, and is warranted on grot|ad| of public po'ioy,"