SALARIES OF M.P.'S
VOTING AGAINST A CUT
The cut which members of Parliament will suffer under the Finance Bill was referred to by Mr. C. A. Wilkinson (Independent, Stratford) in tho House of Representatives last night. If the Bill was not passed, said Mr. Wilkinson, Parliament would then have defeated the proposal to reduce the salaries of members, so that in voting against the Bill members would simply vote to retain their own salaries, and that could not be. Mr. J. M'Combs (Labour, Lyttelton): "Did you agree to the 10 per cent, cut- in your staff's salaries" ' Mr. Wilkinson: "Yes, I am sorry to say I did, for the first time in 111 y life. Ho said that there were hundreds of business men to-day paying wages not out of earnings but out of capital. Air. P. Fraser (Labour, Wellington Central): "Will the lion, member agree that we could reduce our own salaries by means of income tax?" Mr. "Wilkinson: "Thero will also be income tax imposed.'' Mr. F. Langsto^ie (Labour, Waimarino): "Not this session." Mr. Wilkinson: "Yes, this session. We mny bo sure of the income tax as well as' the cut, and I think members will be putting themselves in an invidious position if they vote to retain the salaries they are now drawing/
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 68, 21 March 1931, Page 8
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