I think' that £2000 per annum is quite enough for any Minister, because politics should bo as littlo as possible a career in winch money is to be made" 'My idea would be to equalise salaries; not by putting up tlio salary : of some of,tlio £2000 per annum jobs, but by reducing tho Tivc-thousand-pounders to the salary of tlioir less hlVlilv paid colleagues.—' 'Truth."' ■ J A natir« postal subordinate who had boon fined for. neglect of duty addressed his chief in.tlio following terms:—"Tour Honour may be right, I may be wrong; . I may bo right and Ijonour wrong, let Honour give mo back tho line; and then at. day of resurrection when all hearts will bs open, if I am wrong! I will nloßt gladly, sir,.return 'youi; Honour the monoy,—"Burma Echo,"- Rangoon. ;
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 180, 25 April 1908, Page 12
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