MUST PAY FOR GOOD MEN
POLITICIANS ILL PAID WILL NOT LEAVE BUSINESS It is the belief I>f Mr. J. B. Donald, United candidate for Auckland East, that if New Zealand wants good men at the head of its affairs, it must be prepared to pay for them. Hence £450 annually as the salary of a member of Parliament was insufficient. Mr. Donald said at St. Andrew’s Hall last evening that if a man were capable of taking a position of administrative significance, he could make £3,000 a year in business, and felt no call to go into politics at the low salary offered. The chief defect in our political system as observed by Mr. Donald was that very few business men occupied seats in Parliament. The United Party’s list of candidates provided the remedy for this deficiency. Mr. Donald chipped the Reform Party for its “baiting” policy prior to the election, attacking the wheat duties as a vote-catching concession to the Southern farmers, and classing the marine park scheme at Motuilii in a similar category. Mr. Donald was accorded a vote of thanks and confidence by an audience of about 150 people.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 501, 2 November 1928, Page 11
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192MUST PAY FOR GOOD MEN Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 501, 2 November 1928, Page 11
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