POLICEMAN'S PAY
LESS THAN A LABORER'S (Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. Declaring that he was not an advoeate of departmental extravagance, but that public servants should not be expected to work for nothing, Mr. D. G. Sullivan, Avon, in the House yesterday quoted details of policemen's pay to show that these servants of the public are not being fairly treated. Tke Cbrlstehurch City Council, he explained, paid its general laborers IHs a day, but a policeman with under three years' service obtained only 15s . a day, and it took six to nine years to .reach a general laborer's wage of 16s. To pay such wages, declared Mr. Buliivau, was a very miserable* policy indeed, especially as the police had to undergo a special course of training sad possess some skill.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17029, 14 August 1929, Page 7
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