RETRENCHMENT AND PENSIONS.
(To tho Editor.)
Sib,—Touching tho question of retrenchment, the attention of Ministers has been called to the matter of pensions now being drawn by Civil servants throughout the colony, amounting to no less a sum than some £30,000 or £40,000. Of this sum a large proportion is paid to individual members in sums varying from £300 to £600 annually. Thoso in receipt of such liko annuities would no doubt gladly forego a fair and reasonable reduction towards defraying the expenses of Government and reducing tho burdens of taxation. Public opinion, so strong and emphatic on retronchmont, also favours a scheme for reducing all pensions over £100. During tho coming session it is understood that the question will be raised, and means taken to withhold so much of the pension fund as shall bo consistent and reasonable when viewed eide by side with the burden of taxation, already much greater than the pooplo can bear.—l am, etc., Taxation.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 95, 25 April 1891, Page 2
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