TWO SALARIES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1840, 28 August 1913, Page 6

TWO SALARIES.

CIVIL SERVANTS AND EXTRAS.

The Prime Minister was asked by Mr. Clark in the llouso of Representatives yesterday whether he was aware some length in tho House of Representawas drawing an outside salary of about £300 a year while drawing a salary of £725 per year from the State. In reply, Mr. Massey said that the officer referred to stated that ho was not in receipt of a salary, but received a small annual payment for acting as advisory trustee in the estate of a deceased relative. The matter was being referred to the Public Service Commissioner.

Mr. Clark said he would keep on hammering away at the Government until this man was "put in his place," and mado to conform with the same 'rules as lower-paid officers in the service. Ho declared that this_ gentleman had been absent from Wellington for some nine days a short while ago to superintend a land sale ill connection witTi the estate he was controlling. Mr. F. H. Smith supported Mr. Clark in his protest against the treatment accorded to this high'officer of the Public Service as distinguished from the harsh treatment meted out to a railway porter or clerk who tried to add a very little to his income by giving music lessons. Invariably the'instruction to any man who did this was that ho must discontinue the outside work or leave the service.

Mr. 11. M. Campbell (ITawke'a Bay) said that in his opinion Civil Servants, whether high or low, should bo allowed in their own time to earn anything they possibly could provided the, outsido work did not interfere with their work in the service. He was a great believer in allowing a man to do as much work as he liked to do. Ho did not believe in tying a man down ,to one particular job.