Samoan Retrenchments
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Staffs Being Further Reduced.
From Our Own Correspondent.
APIA, February 12.
ACCORDING to an official statement of the Administration, the re trenchments since the start of the current financial year (April 1, 1931, to March 31, 1932), amount to £8,500, not including the 10 per cent, on salaries of European officials.
The total sum saved in expenditure will probably amount to something like £15,000, or about 10 per cent, of the ex penditure in the last financial year to March 31, 1931. The drop in revenue, however, may be confidently predicted to be much more than 10 per cent., so that further retrenchment will be un avoidable.
Amongst further retirements of Gov ernment officials are reported some in the Medical Department, Public Works Department and Police Department.
The present officer-in-charge of Apia wireless station, Mr. Dunwoodie, will also take charge of the post office. This is a very popular appointment, as Mr.
Dunwoodie, who has served in Samoa since 1914, is highly esteemed.