Engineering Government Pensions
A Profitable Business. SYDNEY, Nov. 21. The report of ,tho Public Service Uonrd in regard to the payment of retired civil servants by previous Administrations reveals a scandal. liefeiring to the, report in (he House, the Hon. J. Carruthers, ,I'rcmier,_ said that the sum of £.">o(>o had been voted, and insten'd of 'bring riisi ribiitcd among 150 'applicants, it was distributed among <lO. The report showed that not 'onr penny should have been vot<xi ami not tme penny distributed. The JDaOOO was obtained largely, or almost, wholly, i.v Ihe influence of two ex-members of parliament, Messi's John llaynes ami K. M. Clarkr. Those who got the £SOOO subscribed £2OO for presentation to thu members anentionetl. Mr John Norton interjected : They got £ISOO.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7987, 25 November 1905, Page 2
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125Engineering Government Pensions Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7987, 25 November 1905, Page 2
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