PAID M’s.H.R.
Members of Parliament are paid in every country except England. The sums paid in several of them are as follows: New Zealand . . . . . . £l5O a year. Belgium 200 ~ Netherlands 200 ~ South Australia 200 ~ Victoria . . 300 ~ France 300 ~ Brazil GOO ~ United States 1000 ~ Prussia .. 1 per day. Canada 2 ~ Queensland 2 ~ Travelling expenses are also paid in several of these countries. In the last division in Eng land in 1888 on the payment of members, among the majority there were no fewer than 61 persons who themselves were in receipt of public pay, either as pensions, salaries, or allowances. The average amount of their income from this source was £1383 per annum. As the resolution was only lost by 57, its defeat was due entirely to the opposition of members who were themselves paid.
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Wairoa Bell, Volume IV, Issue 148, 3 June 1892, Page 5
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134PAID M’s.H.R. Wairoa Bell, Volume IV, Issue 148, 3 June 1892, Page 5
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