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INQUIRY SOUGHT
INTO CONTROL OF
PUBLIC SERVICE
While the Federal payroll in
April increased by 1,500 persons,
employment in manufacturing' industries
fell by 1,100, worker;
the. Director of the Associate;..
Chambers of Manufactures (Mr.
L: Withall), said last night.
He ? said the intake of Federal
Government employees in April
was 50 persons a-day -"'"> '3'
As an indication of the dead
weight 'of Some of the war-time
and boom-time departments of
the Government the salaries bill
of the Department of Information
was now £186,836 or £46,000
more than in 1944-45.
Shocking ? though the continued
existence of this war-time
creation is, it is nothing to what
is going on in other sections of
the Commonwealth Public Ser;
vice," Mr. Withall said. "The,
position is so serious as to de
j made a Royal Commission into the
organisation and financial
and personnel 'controls.'" ' \
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