RETRENCHMENT.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir, — is rather amusing to others than those to be operated upon to read of the proposed retrenchment at Wellington. Not a word of reducing the large salaries paid to the Governor or the Ministers, or of the discontinuance of providing Ministerial residences and furnishing the same, or of free conveyance of the Ministers and their friends at the expense of the colony ; or of a new library at Wellington for a small section of the annual visitors, or of reducing the high rate of honorarium paid to members of the House of Representatives and Legislative Council. Oh, not at all! Send a lot of poor fifth or sixth-rate olerks with large families about their business, or double the work of men already overworked, but don't touch our pay whatever you do. If the Ministers are sincere in their desire for genuine retrenchment so absolutely necessary, let them commence at the top of the lint and work downwards. But are they sincere or the members either, if it is meant to touch their present incomes ? I think the matter is very doubtful.—l am, &c, Faibplat.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 7919, 11 April 1887, Page 3
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