THE TOWN CLERK'S SALARY.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Tlie extraordinary procedure of flic City Council, in raisiticr tliu town dork's salary from £600 lo £300 pur annum lias taken everyone la whom I have spoken to-day about it with the greatest of .iiirprise. Why should the council have been in such a violent hurry? Wore Iho 11 councillors who voted for the increase afraid that Mr Richards would throw up the position, and return again to Sydney? The Mayor oven wont the length of saying that Mr Richards had a <jrasp of affairs that was second lo none! Things couldn't have been so very bad from an accountancy point of view _ when he was able to grasp tlio financial situation so quickly, showing, at the samo time, that Mr Jacobs, tlio then acting-town clerk, knew his business without making any fuss about it. Cr Connor made a vorv lame excuse 0 n behalf of the increase when lie asked Mr Richards if he was coming to take £600. although he understood it was lo be £800. Was the salary not made plain enough when the position was advertised for? This cutting in of the thin end of the ivedge principle is not to bo commended by any public body. A 12 months' trial should have been insisted on before his admirers ndd»d the £200.-1 am, etc., Largo Law, April 26.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13579, 28 April 1906, Page 8
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230THE TOWN CLERK'S SALARY. Otago Daily Times, Issue 13579, 28 April 1906, Page 8
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