PAYMENT OF MEMBERS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2978, 15 August 1891, Page 2

PAYMENT OF MEMBERS.

A vkky general feeling against the proposed increase in the honorarium exists throughout the Waikato electorate. A petition, worded a3 below, is in course rf signature, and anyone desirous of protesting against this indecent proposal can do so by copying or cutting out the petition and by obtaining signatures to it. No time should be lost in gotting signatures and forwarding it direct to Mr Bryce, who has already presented one similarly worded from Auckland To the Honourable thb Speaker and MKMUKUS OP THK HOIISK or REHIR9KNTATIVKS IN P.VRI.IAMKNT ASSEMBLED. Tho petition of the undersigned electors of the colony of New Zealand humbly showeth : 1. That it has como to tho knowledffo of your petitioners that a Bill is about to be presented to your honourable House for the payment to tho members thereof of an annual honorarium of £240, payable monthly, in lieu of honorarium of £150 per session. 2. That such intended Bill is a reversal of the desire for retrenchment unanimously expressed at the last preceding general election, held for tho return of representatives for the people to your honourable Houso. 3. That the passing of tho proposed Bill would be inimical to the best interests of the country by destroying the reliance of the electors in the honour of its representatives, solemuly pledged at two successive general elections to carry out a policy of economy t.nd retrenchment. Your petitioners humbly ask your honourable House to be pleased to reject such proposed Bill, aud, as in duty bound, will ever pray.