LORD HOPETOUN'S SALARY.
THE-COST OF HIS ESTABLISHMENTS.
WHAT THE GOA T ERNOR-GENERAL
HAS SPENT.
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright, (Received May 19th, 9.27 a.m.) LONDON, May 18. The "Pall Mall Gazette declares that it will be a calamity if Lord Hopetoun's services are lost through the parsimony of the Commonwealth. MELBOURNE, May 19. For the eighteen months ending June, the Governor-Genera?s establishment cost about £38,000, made up as follows: — Salary £15,000, allowance for the Royal visit £10,000, allowances paid or to be paid by the Governmsnt £13,003. To this will have to be added the cost of repairs to the Government Houses at Melbourne and Sydney. Under the new arrangement, the Go-vernor-General will in future baye to pay many of the items covered by allowances cut of his own salary. Sir George Turner, the Federal ActingPremier, states that Lord Hopetoun has spent £49,000 since he arrived.
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 11278, 20 May 1902, Page 5
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