Incomes in Russia.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 June 1938, Page 8

Incomes in Russia.

A visit by the Mayor of Manchester to the Mayor of Moscow was used by Professor A. H. Tocker to illustrate the present progress of communism in Russia in an address he gave in Christchurch. The English visitor had been informed, he said, that the lowest-paid worker employed by the Moscow civic authority received one-tenth the amount of the highest paid—and the Englishman had had to reply that in Manchester the spread of incomes from the lowest level to the highest was exactly the same. Defence Force Pay. An increased scale of pay for the land defence forces of the Dominion as an encouragement for the younger generation to assist in the defence of the country was advocated by Mr W. P. Endean (Opposition, Parnell), in giving notice of a question to the Minister of Defence, the Hon F. Jones, in the House of Representatives yesterday. Mr Endean stated that the land forces of New Zealand were deplorably weak in equipment, training and particularly in numbers.

Electric Train Service. Six multiple-unit, four-motor, electric trains, the first of their type to do operated on New Zealand lines, have been completed for the new suburban service between Wellington and Johnsonville. The inauguration ceremony will take place at the Wellington railway station at 2.30 p.m. on Saturday, On Monday next the passenger service will begin with the departure of the 6.35 a.m. train from Wellington, after which fast and regular schedules will be maintained.

Telephone Regulations Broken. On two charges of infringement of the telephone regulations by using indecent language, Thomas Bestwick Heapy, farmer, Greytown, was convicted and fined £2 and costs 10s on each charge in the Magistrate’s Court, Carterton, yesterday, by Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M. Heapy conducted his own defence against the charges, which were the result of investigations by Constables Gregor and McEachern. Mr Lawry remarked that it was the first case of its kind that he had dealt with.