WHERE THE SHOE PINCHES.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2174, 12 February 1881, Page 3

WHERE THE SHOE PINCHES.

The application of tho 10 per cent, reduction to tho fees payable to the Dunedin Land Board members for their attendance ia exercising the minds of the members of the Board, and producing no small amount of resentment against the Government. From what we (“ Daily Times ”) can gather, tho particular-■ of the case are these Some weeks ago t’ o vouchers for fees, forwarded by members in tho usual way, were returned, with a request that members would dedust from the amounts tho 10 per cent, as required by t)o Permanent Officers’ Salaries Act of last session. Tho members, upon receipt of tb ; > rephed that, not considering themselves ci'l servants or Government officers, they wer< ot opinion the Act did not apply to them. aro riot permanent officers, certainly, for'hcir tenure of office is renewable by the Qvernor every two years. Their appointing has to be gazetted afresh at tho end of erf such term. But even if they were pertnane’ 7 appointed, they contend that tho paymer Lh °y get, cannot be termed a salary. The‘ D K u age of tho A. o i, j 9 _« There shall be ded Jted from salaries fixed and payable undt“ n y permanent Act of tho General Assembly o P er centum,” Ac. These members got a f’.. n , a aa l*ry. The Government, however, !lls them that after all they will not eacap? ,la £ the powers conferred by the Land Act. 11 exercised, and the fee in future be rL' - Bi > Qn(l so the matter at present at “*• - lt,e Government say they are consist*. tho members of the Land Board think “ em ■ a "d shabby, and feel affron” -they do not seem to appreciate the * hßt P or centum reduction ia ; .t. aea 69 » “ moral tonio.”