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RUMOR DENIED “WOULD BE DISHONEST” (Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. Indignation prevails among members of Parliament at a statement published that they are urging the Government to present them with a sessional bonus of £IOO. It was pointed out a mouth ago, when the Australian Commonwealth Parliament gave itself an increase of salary, that while members of the New Zealand House received low honoraria, and some of them believed that tiiey were underpaid, none would suggest an increase in salary until the cuts imposed on the Civil Service and all other workers were restored. That situation has not changed. “It is not only untrue; it is grossly unfair,” said a senior member of the Coalition. “None of us have ever heard anything about it, and it is easy to see that the originat e ••h the story is not in touch with the feeling of members. That is not to say that we could not do with it, but to vote ourselves an increase wliile we have reduced tlie pay of the Civil Service and other workers by 20 to 25 per cent, would be dishonest.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18256, 27 November 1933, Page 6
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190NO BONUS FOR M.P.'S Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18256, 27 November 1933, Page 6
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