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Show Canada Orders Official To Curb Correspondence OTTAWA! All waste of money and manpower in government departments de-partments and in military administration adminis-tration must be cut to the minimum by order of Finance Minister J. L. Ilsley and the controller of government govern-ment office economies. 1 The first cut is to be made in needless correspondence. In peace time government departments acknowledged ac-knowledged all letters either by routine rou-tine answers or by printed forms. This practice, it has been ordered, must be discontinued. Even the form letter is out for the duration, as it takes up the time of stenographers stenog-raphers and letter carriers and uses up thousands of sheets of paper and envelopes each week. Mr. Ilsley has directed that staffs be reduced wherever possible and must not be increased. There must, he says, be no non-essential activity. |