“WORTH £3,000 A YEAR”

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 132, 25 August 1927, Page 10

“WORTH £3,000 A YEAR”

Sir, — In your breezy and characteristic report of one of the meetings addressed by the councillors explaining the loan proposals one interjecter persistently asked about the salary paid to the general manager of tramways, and was rebuked by Councillor Allum for his temerity. Now this was a very important question and one that any ratepayer had a right to ask and a still greater right to be satisfied upon. When the manager was imported from Adelaide to manage our tramway system, we were given to understand that all would be well, and, perhaps, on the whole, all was fairly well until the advent of the buses. What did the Council do or what was the Council advised to do by its officer, to meet the emergency? Was it advised by the one man competent to give that advice to lower the fares and so smash the opposition in a few weeks? If it was disregarded, and the advice then the Council is to blame, but if it was n<Dt, who else is to blame? Personally I would be in favour of paying Mr. Ford or anybody else £ 3,000 a year, because if the recipient of such salary were worth it he could save the Council many times that sum in one hit. WHAFFOR.