GRADUATION OR CAMOUFLAGE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 120, 21 April 1932, Page 5

GRADUATION OR CAMOUFLAGE.

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —It is clear to all that the proposed wage cut is merely camouflaged behind the word “graduation.” To make a 10 per cent, cut from a salary of £226, and continue the same rate to the £720 mark, cannot he regarded as anything but a farcical camouflage. Graduation is a palliative for the restive, but would bo more acceptable to the lower-paid servants if thev were sure that the higher paid officials were not being sheltered. If a further cut is to come, then why not instil some real graduation into it. i The complexity of the scheme is a very poor argument against properly graduated cuts. Here is a scale that would not press so heavily on the underpaid, and could not be felt by the higher-paid; yet it would save as much, if not more tlran the present proposed scheme— Below £l5O, 2} per cent, cut; £l5O to £2OO, 5 per cent. ; £2OO to £3OO, 7} per cent.; £3OO to £4OO, 10 per cent.; £4OO to £SOO, 12} per cent.; £SOO to £6OO, 15 per cent.; £6OO to £7OO, 17} per cent. ; £7OO to £BOO, 20 per cent. ; over £BOO, 25 per cent. As the payees to the various superannuation funds are providing the wherewithal to pay the superannuitants, I suggest, sir, that those drawing from these funds be subject to the same cuts, before the funds become hopelessly insolvent. —I am, etc., THE BOND.