FIVE-YEAR TASK
Executive Commission of Agriculture PROSPECTIVE SALARIES Minimum Likely to Be £l5OO a Year Though no official announcement has yet been made, it can be said that the salaries of members of the Executive Commission of Agriculture will be comparatively substantial. The remuneration of Mr. Justice Frazer, as deputy-chairman, will be that statutorily fixed for his position as the judicial President of the Arbitration Court —£2000 a year. There will, of course, be a difference between that amount and the salary of each of the two other members, Mr. David Jones, chairman of the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board, and Mr. G. A. Duncan, secretary of the Hawera Dairy Company, but the gap will not be so very wide, since all the paid members of the commission will be engaged on a full-time task. It appears to be certain that these two members will be paid £l5OO a year each. The statutory chairman of the commission, the Minister of Agriculture. Hon. C E. Macmillan, will receive only the standard Ministerial honorarium which, allowing, for economy cuts and the recent restorative adjustment, is a very great deal less than £l5OO a year. Under the provisions of the Agriculture (Emergency Powers) Act the nonpolitical members of the commission may bold office for a period of five years, and may be removed from otlice only for inefficiency, disability, insolvency, neglect of duty, or misconduct proved to the satisfaction of the Governor-General. Any member, of course, may resign his office. The main functions of (lie commission arc these: ■To co-ordinate the work of the several boards and other authorities exercising powers concerning any of the primary products of the Dominion; and to make such recommendations to the Government as the commission thinks proper with a view to the making of regulations iu relation to the production, handling, marketing, or export. of primary products. The commission probably will begin its duties about the middle of next month, though these for a period necessarily will be of a preliminary nature. Mr. Jones is in London taking part with the High Commissioner, Sir James Parr, in conferences with representatives of tlie British Government on questions concerning meat quotas and other threatened restrictions on tlie export of New Zealand farm products fo the United Kingdom. Mr. Jones, who incidentally is acquiring first-hand information as to British policy and marketing prospects which will be of great value to the Executive Commission of Agriculture, is expected to leave London for New Zealand at the end of this month or early in February. Arrangements for office accommodation in Wellington and secretarial service for the commission have not'been completed, but, negotiations for suitable premises are going forward. Several suites of offices are under offer, but it is anticipated that accommodation will bo secured in the Dominion Farmers’ building. There is keen interest among departmental officers regarding the prospective appointment of a secretary for lhe commission. Several names are being mentioned, but, so far, nothing definite has been done,
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 106, 29 January 1935, Page 8
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497FIVE-YEAR TASK Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 106, 29 January 1935, Page 8
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