REDUCED SALARIES

Evening Star, Issue 20720, 17 February 1931, Page 3

REDUCED SALARIES

CHRISTCHURCH COUNCIL'S RESOLUTION [Pee United Pkess Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, February 10. The City Council decided by a majority of ono to reduco the salaries of its officers. The new scale will operate from April 1. Following the recommendation of the Finance Committee it lias agreed that as the economic conditions of the dominion call for material reductions in the costs of government, a reduction of salaries should bo made as from April I, 1931, and that whore the council is paying wages and allowances in excess of award rates the award rates bo reverted to as from April 1. PRAISE FOR PREMIER Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright., LONDON, February 16. The ‘Morning Post’ says: “Mr Forbes lias set an example of prudent, courageous finance, which ought not to bo lost on cither Mr Philip Snowden (Chancellor of the Exchequer) or Mr J. H. Scullin (Prime Minister of Australia). New Zealand has suffered as much as any other country under the maelstrom of tlm world depression, yet whereas Australia is still shirking the issue, Mr Forbes has wasted no time in bringing the situation under control before it became unmanageable. His programme embodies just those measures which Sir Otto Niemeyer recommended for Australia. Improvident governments like our own, which cuts its coat without regard to the cloth, would .be well advised to take a leaf out of Mr Forbes’s book.” ANNOUNCEMENT WELCOMED [Feb United Puess Association.] STRATFORD, Fcbrhary 17. Tho Borough _ Council last night passed the following resolution:— “ That this council welcomes the announcement of tho Prime Minister that Parliament will bo asked to pass tho measures necessary to place the country in a sounder economic position and to balance the Budget, and congratulates him on the courage shown in his proposals. It trusts that ho will have the support of every section of the community in his unpleasant task.”