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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9614, 21 March 1917, Page 2

The new Lord Chancellor (Sir Robert Finlay), who has set a fine precedent for “self-denying ordinances" by .waiving, his right to pension, will hold an office that exhibits a classic example of what economists call “unearned increment." The salary fixed by Henry I. amounted to 5s f day, with a ‘‘livei'y” of provisions, and an allowance of one pint and a half of claret per day, one gross of wax lights per year, and 40 candle ends. It seems a big jump from this Spartan stipend to 4110,000 a year. Lord Chancellor Erskiue, rfhen told that Parry, the Artie explorer, had lived on seals, remarked: "And a very good living, too, if yon can keep them long enough.” But the Chancellors of the Middle Ages were usually wellendowed ecclesiastics. The Lion:» The Leopard, you know, cannot change its spots. The Zebra: . I can't change my stripes either, but no one ever thought it of sufficient interest to make a proverb of. S. G. Nathan will offer for sale by public auction the contents of a tenroomed house at 11 o’clock this morning.