MORE PAY.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 July 1920, Page 5

MORE PAY.

CIVIL SERVICE INCREA9B

NO NEW TAXATION.-.

HIGHER RAILWAY AND PQSI|9 RATES. ■'• i ".-V|||9 (By Wire.—Parliamentary R«poV^H Wellington, tfift VwSM When members of the H o sj^w t sHlSH manding higher salaries the Supreme Court, and intfd|&t*w|l|H other servants of the Sfot«'Of:>ijy£|jij|M Mr. Massey took occasion once warn the House that there are ttWiHH the capacity of the country. •• House to consider this ntttier raH moment from the point of >*lew : :«HM Treasurer," said "Set. Maesey,.«'lHJH morning I wag engaged, as M&jraeS Finance, in providing for salaries amounting in all to not lew MB £2,000,000 per annum. Tl liii||ii«uW mous sum, but it has to be He went on to sey that servants of the Stale for #BB<MB creases of salary had to' M'<j§ft!J&HJ were Judges of the Supreme' QbM i Magistrates, members of 'PwIUaHH [railway servants, postal officials,:olfl tranches of the Public Service,. MUM teachers, and the police. the Treasury was in such A position mH as soon as the increases wese QTmhH he would be in a position, to *nHjflaß He did not think it would be iihiimßH to increase taxation payment of the £2,000,000 this>jpjj|Hfl he hoped that he might not luiwrejHH it next year. This would typMsH the markets for our produce. MJ'rJBjH the whole • community lived, feared there migtl be ft drop li'-flHfl within a year or two. - a«B THB PEOPLE TO PAY. ill The people Of the Dominion, blwfljß would We to face an increase, ta.j|fl way fares and freights, for the increMß of pay to railway servants wonjdJpH to be borne by the Tailway; Jff9Sj|J|B self. So also with the PotUllimH ment there would have to be moreaMwH postal'and telegraph rates, and by -nuj means the Department would bert.jjM «e«st of .its own increases of ssJarleil'JH feared that as the other depsjrhnejß were not revenue producing in quitiejoH same way the increases for them WjgjjJ have to be borne by the 'OMp|| Fund. Fortunately, there OT':IH surpluses in the past year or tKtysadgil was on account of t&is that to be able to provide the ertrai ANffifl without further taxation. - - >'fa The outlook for the present yW'SfIJ igood. The country was prosper©* <§{■ | money was plentiful, but they ntuiMwjfl ahead to consider'what the ftMimnfl would be when the price for out K|§|9 might not be so good, for there HWMMjfIJH than a possibility that ere Icm'tHlH prices would not be so good, .(lo»'f| reason we should not go too fost,J| he thught we were going just as ffl as the country could afford., ~ | FINANCIAL" V Members would be told all abeirifw when the Financial Statement ;w down next week. He had the Statement should be made to,| House next Tuesday, and he would'! to be ready by thaf day, but If $ should not be ready he might oskJ| House to give him Wednesday. Wp the Statement was presented, membj I would know something more of the, id [ mends being made on the Treasury,'* would know what the Governnw could meet and what it could not nMN The time might come when the GO ernment would have to increase S salaries of some of the higher 'ofijot of the State. He was prepared to $ mit that some of the heads of DeMJ ments were nSE now being adeqUMJ pad. ■ )'\'i $ Mr. Hanan: Some of them Mft nj worth what they get. •.' ':; Mr. Massey said that thjiß waa'alvw the case in a big service. PosslblyJ same might be said of members of Pf 1 iament. He recognised the of the position held by Judges, and'; funds would permit he would have jud| satisfaction in proposing further' H@| creases for them. r--il