A HUGE RISE
BY SYDNEY COUNCIL. (Australian Press Association) SYDNEY, August 14. At a special meeting of the Sydney City Council, a resolution proposed by the Reform Party, to bring the Council’s employees tinder the Public Service Reduction Act, tvas approved. Tills means a cut of eight' and one third per cent, in their wages. The Labour members of the Council hotly condemned the reduction. Alderman Jock Garden exclaimed:— “These paupers will awake, and. .starving people will cry out.” We want food! “It’s coming! You all- know it.” t'A.' ;• Av:
At the same meeting the Reform Alderman agreed to a recommendation of the Electricity, Committee to increase the salary of Mr Forbes MaCr kav, the Manager of the City Electricity Department from two thousand to three.thousand pounds a year.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 August 1930, Page 5
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