STATE SALARIES
PUBLIC SERVANTS PROTEST. (By Teleyraph —Per Press .lssociaL'em) WELLINGTON, February, 18. A deputation representing the Public Service Association, Educational Institute, P. and T. Employees Association, Railway Officers' Institute, A.S.R.S., E.F.C.A., and the Railway Tradesmen’s Association, waited today on Mr Forbes, and placed before him their views oil the question of a ten per cent, cut in State salaries. The main point brought forward was that the proposal was one which put an unfair arid intolerable share of the burden of balancing the Budget on State , employees. It was stated that even if award wages were reduced by ten per cent and if all other wages and salaries'" were equally reduced, it was not to be asserted that the cost of living would fall in prooprtion.
. It. was further asserted that the Government could have no effective control over the rates of interest, and also that a large number of State' servants had entered into financial commitments on their present rate of remuneration.
Mr Forbes said that the question was one for Parliament to decide, whether or not his policy was to be ratified.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 February 1931, Page 2
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185STATE SALARIES Hokitika Guardian, 19 February 1931, Page 2
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