LORD MAYOR OF LONDON
£2,500 INCREASE IN ALLOWANCE. The annual "llownnee of the Lord Mayo? of Lord-m is to be increased ifront Cl o.OOCi to Cl 2.500. on the ■ ground that il. ;-r<sei.t sum is quite ' inadequate (says the ‘Daily Telegraph" >. Even with the addition "f £2,500 the Chief Magistrate of th? city will find at il' o <nd of his year that he has to [•'.■<>«.:. .1 least another .£2,500 fiuin Ins own pocket. It has been stated that the late Sir William Treloar found it necessary to spend £25,000 in addition to the .Elo.i.Ou. and Sir Rowland Blades, now Lord Ebbisham, £20.000, in order to maintain the various calls made on them during their year of otllce. A question of a reduction of in per cent, owing to fall in the cost of living I was unsuccessfully raised five years'
ago, and it was point -d out that the sum of £j(i.i)(hi had held for 60 yetirs.
and that expt nses were about doll de what they were when that sum w:. - fixed. Ho.- pit: iity a< counts for a large i ropoiiien of the annual outlay.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 3 May 1935, Page 2
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