Kōrero: State services and the Public Service Commission

Alexander Herdman, 1919

Alexander Herdman, 1919

‘Scientific management’ was the aim when Parliament shifted oversight of the state sector from politicians to an independent commissioner in 1913. Alexander Herdman, a lawyer and Reform Party MP, had spent 10 years on the opposition benches pushing for the move. This was described in 1912 as his ‘political hobby’.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, S. P. Andrew Collection (PAColl-3739)
Reference: 1/1-018385-G
Photograph by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Mark Prebble, 'State services and the Public Service Commission - The merit principle', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/photograph/33068/alexander-herdman-1919 (accessed 30 March 2024)

He kōrero nā Mark Prebble, i tāngia i te 20 Jun 2012