Nanking, June 22.
The reduction which has been made in the salaries of all Govern ment employees will be continued until December, 1932, This mea. gute is being adopted owing to the financial stringency of the Govern: ment, according" to information received to-day from the Ministry of Finance, The Ministry's original plan of making full payment of all Government expenses beginning from July can no longer be encouraged owing to the anti-bandit campaign expenses and the detention of the Manchurian Customs. As a result the period of reduction in the salaries of Government employees must be prolonged.—Reuter.
June 23.
An interesting question regarding' the pay of Government servants has raised by the Ministry of Auditing in a petition submitted to the National Government, Tt has been the practice for those government organs which collect national revenues, such, for example, as the Customs and Postal administrations, to pay the salaries. of their stair members out of the income directly collected, As a result, therefore, while civil servants working in such organs are practically unaffected by the " rigid retrenchment programme foreed by the Government since the Shanghai trouble of January 28, those serving in other organs have been receiving only nominal salaries. That there should have been this discrimina-|h: tion between the employees in var-fous departments of the publ Vice is considered to be unfair, it 2 Fine the ened the Auditing Ministry has nov beck lo the remedy suggested b; disclosed, it is understood shat the Petition emphasises the point that ial wound with dint
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