GUBERNATORIAL AND MINISTERIAL EXPENSES.
The Svdney Morning Herald has an t'-Ic d::iwi r 'o attention to the expenses by the different Australian Colonies, l v i„ inaintaining Governors and j>tinis--2L without referring to the subordinate ,'n-i:d of the various Governments. Thns colonies of Victoria, New South VTales' Zealand, Queensland, South Lqtralia and Tasmania, with an aggregate oculation amounting to 2,65(j,951, _ have P. - (lovernors and forty-two Ministers. The Governors' salaries amount to L3%000, iul Ministers' salaries to L 53,050. Taking ATini'sters alone, we find that their salaries, aiil by over 2 - 500 » 0<W people, are P r !y etjnal to those drawn by the Cabinet \rini3ters of the United Kingdom, with a notjolaticn of 35,000,0:;0. If the limitation to the English Cabinet Ministers is set aside, t ije whole British Ministry i 3 not more numerous than our Ministers in these colonies, and is not p-iid more than double as much-
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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 9 November 1880, Page 3
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150GUBERNATORIAL AND MINISTERIAL EXPENSES. Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 9 November 1880, Page 3
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