SALARY CUT

Hokitika Guardian, 5 August 1931, Page 6

SALARY CUT

AMENDMENT TO BILL. (Australian Press Association.) (Received this day at 9.25 a.m) SYDNEY, August 5. The Legislative Council by 28 to 20 votes amended the Public Service Salaries Bill by removing the clause limiting salaries to a maximum of JL'SO!) sterling a year and substituting a gradual scale of reductions throughout the service. .Mr Boyce, who moved the amendment, estimated the savings under the new scheme at £'1,850,000. He said that it. was the public servants own scheme, with modifications, that was incorporated in the Amendment the salary of every officer would be reduced as follows:—Fifteen per cent on those between £IOO and £200; 17 per cent between £2OO and £400; twenty per tent between £4OO and £000; 22.1 per cent between £6OO nad £800,; 25 per cent between £6OO and £800; 25 per cent between £IOOO and £1500; 324 per cent on salaries in excess of £ISOO.

Tlu* “Labour Daily” says if the Government refuses to accept the drastic amendments to the salary bill it - is likelv that the Loan Council will refuse to advance assistance to New South Wales, on the plea that economy legislation promised by Mr Lang lias not become law. In this event there will lie little or no pay lor the public sen ice to-morrow.