RETIRING LEGISLATORS
QUESTION OF FREE PASSES Various suggestions have been made that solatiums should be given to the retiring members of the New South Wales Legislative Council. The publit opinion, says a correspondent, is that no tributes of this kind are called for It is conceded that many members have done the State good service, but it is argued that the honours of office, plus free rail and tram traasiport, were adequate rewards. Some members of the past were known to do commercial travelling on parliamentary passes, and houses with ordinary travellers in the same line were wroth at this unfair competition. _ The proposal to give retiring members of the Legislative Council gold oassea to have currency for as many years «s they have served the country, has nofc a popular upper l. "If a member of file Legislative Council has had a free pass for 20 years," said one who discussed that suggestion, it is a cogent reason why He should now pay his fares." _.
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20957, 11 September 1933, Page 4
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