13 AUGUST 1921, Page 3

The Report of the Select Committee on Estimates which was

published on Tuesday gives some remarkable examples Of the way in which the problem of remunerating the Civil Service has been managed and is being managed—the salaries are in some cases rising as we write—by this Government of all the ineptitudes. The grave and sober condemnation, coached in guarded Parliamentary language, is most impressive : It appears that in addition to the granting of a war bonus increases in salary have also been made. In view of tb 3 financial atnnfleneY at the present time, it appears to your Committee

that the moment chosen to make large increases in salaries was most inopportune."