ODD ITEMS IN ACCOUNTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 November 1934, Page 3

ODD ITEMS IN ACCOUNTS

“ANATOMY INSPECTORS”—£777 Many quaint items are revealed in the Finance Accounts of the United Kingdom for 1933-34, recently published. For example, £777 8s 2d is still paid to -'lnspectors of Anatomy” under a Statute of William IV. Six trumpeters for the High Commissioner to the General Assembly, of the Church of Scotland receive £loffi The University of Cambridge has a grant of £8 3s 6d “for a preacher.” But. the Uiiiversity of Oxford gets only £7 19s 6d fp.r a similar functionary. The pensions' paffi to retired Lord Chancellors, judges, and Metropolitan police magistrates amount to" more than £67,000 a year 'for England alone. Qnp Cabinet Lliiiister draws a pen-, ffion of £l,OOO a year as qii ex-Lord Chqn cellin', iq addition to his Ministerial 'saiat-y. Tffie ordinary pension of an ex Lord Chancellor is £5,000; only one cjraws this amount, and he fulfils judicial functions in the- House of Lords when it is sitting as a Court of Appeal.