CIVIL SERVANTS PROTEST
CBy Telegraph.—Press Association.) lIAWEBA, This Day. A meeting of' Civil servants at Hawcra during the week-end carried a resolution protesting emphatically against the proposed 10 per cent, reduction in salaries and wages, thus reducing the pay of thousands of Civil servants below the standard paid ior relief work. ~.,., The resolution states that with the first reduction of 17 per cent, in 1922 the cost of living was 42 per cent, above pre-war level, and now that the cost of living is 62 per cent, above pre-war the proposed salary reduction is considered unwarranted, drastic, and unreasonable-, and the Prime Minister's assurance that the cost of living will bo .reduced comparatively cannot be accepted. The meeting- also carried a resolution disagreeing with the handing over of social services to private management and inquiring why such action should bo taken with the Railways any more than with the Post and Telegraph and Police Departments.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WHANGAKEI, This Day.— The Whangaroi County Council decided to reduce all staff wages and members' travelling expenses by 10 per cent.'
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 39, 16 February 1931, Page 11
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179CIVIL SERVANTS PROTEST Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 39, 16 February 1931, Page 11
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