CIVIL SERVANTS
PROTEST AGAINST CUTS. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association) HAWERA, February 16. A meeting of c-ivil servants at Hawera during the week-end resolutioned protesting emphatically against the proposed 10 per cent, reduction of salaries and wages, thus reducing the pay of thousands of civil servants below; the standard paid for relief work. The resolution stated that with the past reduction of 17 per cent, in 1922, the cost of living was 42 per cent, above the pre-war level and now that the cost of living is 62. per cent, above prj-war, the proposed salary reduction is considered unwarranted, drastio and unreasonable, and the Prime Minister’s assurance that the cost of living will be reduced comparatively, cannot be accepted. The meeting also resolved disagreeing with the handing over of social services to private management, and inquiring why such action should be taken with the railways any more than the Post and Telegraph and Police Departments.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 February 1931, Page 5
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154CIVIL SERVANTS Hokitika Guardian, 16 February 1931, Page 5
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