WAR BONUS
■>'O IHB EDITOR. Sir,—ln your issue of the 9th instant I read a telegram in which Mr. Andrews, of Canterbury .Education Board, protests against the repetition of. the war bonus to Civil servants Mr. An drews gives his reason, the hard timt some people are having to make ends meet. Does he forget that there are Civil servants, who, living, away from home, are trying to make ends meet with a. salary of £60 or £70. Let him reckon up the price of living and he will see just about how far that' £70 goes. Mr. Andrews evidently looks' upon the Civil Service as ;i, nicely feathered nest, where all one has to do is play with £5 notes. He further says that some of those who received the bonus gave it to charity, looking upon it as "blood money." Possibly those ' persons had a guilty conscience. My opinion, which is shared by many, is, that the bonus be paid to those officers whose salary does not exceed £260, and that the,payment of a large sum.to those to whom'it is not at all necessary be not continued.—l,am, etc., CIVVIE. 10th June.' '• ,
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 138, 11 June 1917, Page 9
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194WAR BONUS Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 138, 11 June 1917, Page 9
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