BAY OF PLENTY BEACON Published Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 20, 1950 PAYING AN ORGANISER

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 16, Issue 35, 20 December 1950, Page 4

BAY OF PLENTY BEACON Published Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 20, 1950 PAYING AN ORGANISER

From a decision to pay a sec-retary-organiser £2 a week and a percentage of collections, the .Whakatane War Memorial Committee has progressed, if progressed is the word, to one to pay £5 weekly advance on collections. This later decision resulted from a sub-committee’s belief that £2 a week was insufficient. But £5 is neither betwixt nor between. Pay a man £2 and a percentage and he will make a good part-time effort. Pay him £l2 and he will look on the job as full-time. Pay him £5 and he has something more than a parttime position and something less than a full-time one. The appointee will be given three years in which to collect £IO,OO0 —that is, three years' in. which, at five per cent, to make £SOO for himself. If he should take the full three years to collect the money, he has only a part-time occupation. To undertake the position full-time he would need to be sure of bringing in £IO,OOO in less than a year. The success or otherwise of the appeal v/ill depend largely on this appointment. And who will apply for the position on the terms offered. It is a fair bet that the man who is freely named will not. The position seems unlikely to attract a person of vigour, imagination, showmanship and initiative.