ANTI-WASTE CAMPAIGN.
SERIOUSLY HEEDED IN BRITAIN.
NO BONUS TO “HIGHLY-P-4IDS.”
LONDON, July 26,
Evidence is accumulating that the Government is seriously heeding the anti-waste campaign. Sir Robert Horne, in the. Commons, replying to criticisms regarding the excessive salaries paid to civil servan s, said the staff of the pre-war depar - ■ meats had increased from 28,3000 to 312,000. This would be investigated Fifty per cent, of 300.000 entitled to .the •war bonus received less than 35s per week, exclusive of the bonus 88 per cent of the whole had less than .C2OO a year-only 6000 received salaries above £SOO a year, while 777 received above £l'ooo. „ Apart fro hi this reduction the Government had decided not to reduce salaries under £SOO a year, Ira n° bonus should be paid where salaries were over £IOOO.— A. and N./5. o.a.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LV, Issue 6143, 29 July 1921, Page 5
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