HIGH SALARIED OFFICERS
Tiit at Labour Government A tilt at the high. salaries that the Labour Government was - paying to certain of its exeeutive officers was made by Mr. K. J. Holyoake, National member for Motueka, . tvhen speaking at M'cllington. After emphasising lipw the Labour Party, when iu ox)positiou, liad already. fougkt against the paymeut of fiigh salaries to Government officers, Mr.
Holyoake drew attention to the salhrics that were being paid to the Director of Internal Marketing, - the Direetor of Broadeasting, and the Director of Commercial Broadeasting, ali of whom, he said, were occupying X>ositions created' by the Labour Government. "Among the high-salaried men-is.,one who claims to be responsible for putting the previous Government out," remarked Mr. Holyoake.- "He. ; may have, but you w-ait", the same man will put the Labour Government out. • Then. take Prof essor Shellcy, who - gets a salary of £1500 a year ,rising to £2000. I don't 'know what that means.- Perhaps it means that he gets £1500 a year while learning his job, and When he has learned it he will get £2000."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 186, 24 August 1937, Page 8
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