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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 5, Issue 256, 15 February 1862, Page 3

To the Editor of the Hawke's Bay Herald. Sib, — If you'll permit a humble individual to Bhow the great guns of the Provincial Council in a plain way how they can retrench and reform, I say,—

— Mr. Editor, — That'B plain, shewing how near £1500 a year may be be saved, and it will be queer if the members of Council, that pretend to stick up for economy and are well informed on the subject, can't save another £1000, and still not let the public service suffer. Thia would pay the interest of the debt. When times get better, the province would pay their servants better ; when times is dull we must cut its (the province's) coat according to the cloth. ECONOMIST.

Reduce Superintendent's salary to £450 per annum, and save £150 0 0 Put away expenses of Executive Council, the honor being enough of pay, and save SO 0 0 Reduce Clerk (giving him £75 under other heads) to £150 per annum, and save 50 0 0 Knock off Treasurer and put him into Superintendent's office as Chief Clerk, where he can get assistance from, the other Clerk, who hasn't had too much to do for a good while; give Chief Clerk and Treasurer £200 per annum, and save 150 0 0 Reduce Native Interpreter ; give Chief Clerk £50 a year to do the duty, and save 50 0 0 Keep Solicitor at old rate of pay, £100 per annum, and save 25 0 0 Do not pay country members for attending Council— none of them want it, the honor being sufficient, and save 150 0 0 Reduce altogether the useless Inspector of Police, as the province can't afford to pay him £300 a year just because he's Capt. Carter's nephew, and save 300 0 0 Do away with dog nuisance men as useless, and save 35 0 0 Reduce Commissioner of Crown Lands, that I'll have it he is no servant of the Province, but of the General Government. Everyone knows he doesn't do any duty as Chief Surveyor; dock his wages, I say, to £275 per annum, £25 per an. more than the Clerk that does all the work, and save 175 5 0 Reduce travelling expenses of Engineer to £50 per annum, and save 50 0 0 The Council has already saved in the Auditor's Department 250 0 0 Total saving per annum £1,465 0 0