GOVERNOR’S PAY.
JOB AT £ls A WEEK
POSTS A DRUG ON MARKET,
LONDON, August 13. In view of the refusal of the Tasmanian Governorship by Mr J'.' O’Grady. M.P., the press is remarking that governorships and other ornamental posts are becoming a drug in the market.
St. Helena now requires a Governor, and the position carries a salary of £ls a week.
“.Even a dustman,’’ says one paper, “might turn up his nose at being ‘Yom Excellency’ on £BOOO a year. “Yvhat tire Labour part,- needs is a few rich nobodies who wiil enjoy pay mg their own salaries.” “Australia.” says the Manchester Guardian,” where most of the States have Labour Governments, frugally refrains from grumbling at a system which relieves them of paving their chief dignitary a salary which will defray his outlay for - dinner parties. “The wrongness of the system is being found out first in England, thanks to such cases as that of Mi O’Grady. The thing can be adjusted by increasing the pay of governors, making official expenditure more modest, or combining both expedients. “What do the Dominions think!-'”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 August 1924, Page 7
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183GOVERNOR’S PAY. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 August 1924, Page 7
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