A Treasury Committee has inquired into the mushroom-like growth of
the many new Departments, and in a Report published on Wednesday has pointed out that the hasty recruiting of very large numbers of clerks led to much confusion and inefficiency. Persons who had been dismissed as unsuitable by one Depart- ment found employment with another—sometimes at a higher salary. Men or women who had been rejected by the Civil Service Commission obtained posts in Departments recruiting on their own account. The Committee makes the very obvious suggestion that all clerks and typists required for the London offices should be engaged through the Civil Service Commission, as in time of peace. There is no reason why the Commission should ever have been superseded. Much of the extravagance and incompetence with which the new Departments are charged may be safely traced to the employment of unsuitable people who were appointed in haste.
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