MEMBERS’ SALARIES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 289, 10 November 1925, Page 4

MEMBERS’ SALARIES.

ACCEPTANCE OF INCREASE

Per Press Association. AVESTPORT, Nov. 7. Immediately after tho publication of Mr Bavin’s cable to Mr Coates, contradicting Mr Lang’s cable to Mr Holland to the effect that all parties in the New South AVales Parliament have been associated in the movement to raise Parliamentary salaries, Mr Holland cabled to Mr Bavin, inquiring whether all tho members of the Opposition were refusing to- accept tho increases.

Mr Bavin did not reply until yesterday, when he cabled Mr Holland as follows: “Members of the Opposition are mostly accepting the increase.” Commenting on this, Mr Holland directed attention to the fact that Mr Bavin had withheld his reply until after the poll. That the Opposition members were accepting the increase was, he said, proof that a majority were in favour of a change. Reference to tho New South Wales Hansard showed that when the third reading of the bill was voted on by the Assembly on October S, only fifteen of the Opposition voted against it; five Oppositionists voted for it; and quite twenty members of the Opposiion refrained from voting. It was clear, ho said, that Mr Bavin’s cablo contradicting that sent by Mr Lang was a carefully prepared electioneering tactic to mislead the New Zealand electors.