POLITICIANS’ PAY
Sir, —It has recently been suggested that the dominating motive for the recent political compromise has been a desire to retain salaries. Mr J. A. Lee is right when he refers to the poverty of the pay of our members of Parliament. It is high time that the public learned that our members are among the worst paid sections of the community. Those who are dissatisfied with the service given by them should be made to x’ealise that better service and a much wider choice of candidates for parliamentary honours would be secured but for the present practice of making poverty the price that any man without considerable private means must pay for taking the opportunity to serve his country in our Parliament. One step which a- non-party Administration should take Ls to raise the emolument of members in our next Parliament. The rise should be substantial, _ and should be associated with the provision of a hostel where flats to accommodate members and their wives in Wellington could be obtained at moderate rents. —I am, etc., Southern Cross.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24969, 16 July 1942, Page 6
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