HE WILL DO THE JOB

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 499, 31 October 1928, Page 10

HE WILL DO THE JOB

MR. H. H. STERLING’S SALARY

PRIME MINISTER EXPLAINS (Special to THE SUN) XGARUAWAHIA, To-day. I ‘‘The whole thing does not amount to a row of pins—there are men in the railway service * who have been treated far more generously than has Mr. Sterling,” said the Prime Minister, Mr. J. G. I Coates, at Tuakau yesterday, when ! speaking of the Labour Party’s attempts to make political capital cut of the appointment of Mr. H. H. Sterling as general manager of the Railway Department. Referring to Mr. Sterling’s super- I annuation. Mr. Coates explained tliat j i the general manager would retire in ! • the same manner as the other mem- | of theservice. He had to ser#e j I 40 years before he was entitled to ! I £2,300 a year, and he had now com- i I pleted 27 years’ service. “I don’t UJte the salary of £3.300 I a year,” said the speaker, “but I believe ! wo have got a man who will do the j job and earn that amount.” (After leaving Auckland yesterday morning, the Prime Minister visited Tuakau, Onewhero and Ngaruawahia, where he arrived last evening. Today he will go to the Hauraki Plains and deliver an address at Te Ai*oha in the evening. At Ngaruawahia last evening he addressed a large gathering, and was accorded a vote of thanks and confidence, supported by a haka given with gusto by a party of Maoris.

He referred teethe healthy conditions of New Zealand’s trade and, in contending that the Government had given effect to its 1925 platform, said that agriculture had been given its proper place at the top of the list of university courses.