COST-OF-LIVING BONUS
(To the Editor.)
Sir, —I am a married officer in the Public Service. Unmarried officers, receiving salaries of £5 and £10 per annum less than mine, receive the benefit of the addition of the new cost-of-living bonus, yet I am not eligible for any increase. I estimate that in the aggregate those unmarried officers (both men and women) will now be receiving a considerably higher actual rate of pay than I shall. On inquiring, I am told that no mistake has been made. Can you inform me whether this kind of thing is according to the spirit and intention of the legislation recently passed? Incidentally I may say that my earnings (unsupplemented in any way) have to meet the entire living expenses of five adults. —I am, etc.,
INQUIRER
(To the Editor.)
Sir,—l read in the "Evening Post" of September 16 where the Minister of Finance (the Hon. W. Nash) said that all State employees were granted 5s a week special allowance, retrospective to August 12. As far as I know, no Public Works or ' railway employees in our locality have received such an allowance.—l am, etc., E.T.C. Waikanae, October 11, 1940.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 95, 18 October 1940, Page 6
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