INADEQUATE SALARIES
TO EXPERT LEADERS
"PERPETUATING MEDIOCRITY"
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
CHEISTCHURCH, This Day.
• 'If it pays Britain to give salaries of £5000 a year to farmers who are reorganising the milk industry, surely we can pay something more than we are doing to the experts, on whom wo depend, or should depend; for leadership in so many avenues of life." This statement was made by Dr. A, J. Harrop, agent for the University of New Zealand, at the degree day celebration of Canterbury College. Dr. Harrop deplored the inadequate salaries paid in New Zealand to wen ■holding responsible positions in tho Public Service as well as in academic and other professions. This was one of the reasons why so many New Zealand graduates remained abroad after taking courses at British universities. ."Is it necessary that .we should perpetuate mediocrity by offering mediocre salaries?" he asked. ■■ ; « .
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 110, 11 May 1934, Page 6
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145INADEQUATE SALARIES Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 110, 11 May 1934, Page 6
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