In the House of Commons on Wednesday the Chancellor of
the Exchequer stated that the salaries—each £3,000—of the heads of the new Road Board and Development Board were higher than the average because the posts were temporary. A. further question elicited the fact that since the passing of the Budget a hundred and eighty-nine valuers (seventy-two on a permanent basis) have been appointed for Great Britain at an average salary of £318, in addition to the sixty-one valuers already attached to the Estate-Duty Office. The growth of public expenditure due to new legislation is nowhere more clearly shown than in the creation of new Departments and new officials. The Labour Exchanges, Land Valuation and Super-tax Departments already account for hundreds of new officials. As a writer in the Daily Mail points out, "up to the end of 1909, in consequence of the legislation passed by the Liberal Government, 1,154 fresh officials, permanent or temporary, were appointed, at a total cost of £130,212; and, in the words of a Government return, as the great majority of the new officers are receiving salaries rising annually on a scale the total cost will, no doubt, greatly increase in course of time.' "
