BANKRUPT IF DEFEATED

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 494, 25 October 1928, Page 8

BANKRUPT IF DEFEATED

MR. BARTRAM WANTS MORE WAGES POSITION OF CANDIDATE That the salary of a member ef Parliament should be reduced £450 to £l5O. in view of the fact he spends only SO days in the Hou** each. year, was the suggestion pm forward by an interject or at a meet*!addressed by Mr. F. N. Bartratr* Labour candidate for Grey Lynn t the Grey Lynn Library Hall last ev*t> “I am going to be quite honest.” Mr. Bartram. “Far from accepting proposition of my friend. I are favour of increasing the now*, arium. I believe the average who is drawing the basic wage of £4 8s a week is a long way better off than a member of Parliament.” Voices: Nonsense! Mr. Bartram: You saw what Sidey said, and he is a wealthy man”* The original interject or got to his feet again, and advanced a number of objections, until the chairman, Mr. jl C. Watt§, interposed. “When a man persists in idiotic ia. terruptions, it is time for him to tl out,” said Mr. Watts. Mr. Bartram said that, if defeated 5o per cent, of members of Parliament would be faced with bankruptcy. * The Questioner: You are rubbish. * Mr. Bartram: This man is here to bait me. The Questioner: I am not. The Chairman: Then take your answer without all these interrogations Mr. Bartram has made his point fectly clear.