PAY FOR COUNCILLORS

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 8 November 1935, Page 12

PAY FOR COUNCILLORS

SUPPORT AT AUCKLAND REMIT AT CONFERENCE RECOMPENSE FOR SERVICES (By Telegraph—Press Association). AUCKLAND, Nov. 7. The payment of allowances to councillors for their services as councillors is to be supported by the Auckland City Council in a remit which it was decided to forward to the next municipal conference. On the order paper at a special meeting of the council there was a remit in the name of 'Mr A. Rosser suggesting an amendment to the Municipal Corporations Act providing for payment of any wages lost by any councillor while engaged on the business of the council.

Mr Rosser said that when he framed this remit he hid overlooked the fact that a somewhat similar remit had been submitted to the last conference and lost. This had sought to authorise . the payment of allowances to councillors for their services. He now preferred to withdraw his remit and have resubmitted to the conference the one lost last year.

It might be said that the moment a Labour council came into office it sought power to have its members paid, but the remit which he now favoured had been brought forward by a former council on which Labour was in a minority, said Mr Rosser. On the council and on other similar bodies were men who in carrying out the duties placed on them were faced with considerable loss. The largo amount of time which had to be given by members in attending to their duties was not generally realised. Mr Rosser was permitted to withdraw his remit and it was decided to adopt last year’s remit and have it submitted to the conference.