MAYORAL HONORARIUM
CITIZENS generally will welcome the decision of the Borough Council last Monday to raise the Mayoral honorarium. Such action was long overdue, in spite of the Mayor's personal objection to an increase, for by comparison with other towns of a similar size the sum of £50 which was paid in the past appears paltry and insignificant. No doubt the original vote was decided upon when Whakatane was barely half the size it is today, and the duties of the mayoral office were not so enerous or so exacting. The fact that no movement has been made, in the past to bring the honorarium up to a figure jnore in agreement with the town's growth and importance, is probably due to the good nature of past chief magistrates who were prepared to give their services irrespective of remuneration or recompense. This attitude also applies to our present Mayor who in the past has ruled even the discussion of the subject 'out-of-order.' All the same the fact remains that ratepayers and householders must be prepared to do the. fair thing by their mayor-elect, and the Council's action will meet with unanimous endorsement. . *
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 112, 30 May 1941, Page 4
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192MAYORAL HONORARIUM Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 112, 30 May 1941, Page 4
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