BOROUGH WAGES CUTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19031, 3 June 1936, Page 13

BOROUGH WAGES CUTS

RESTORATION MOOTED NO IMMEDIATE ACTION A MOTION DEFEATED Provision has been made by the Gisbome Borough Council in its esti mates to meet the restoration of the wage and salary cuts imposed in 19.''. 1 The council considered the matter when sitting as the estimates committee last week, and the report submitted to the open meeting last nigh; recommended that the cuts .should bo restored "when the Government Minkcs its pronouncement," and .placed an amount on the estimates to moot the additional expenditure who, this would arise. ' An attempt to re store the cuts immediately failed. Cr. J. H. Hall moved that the restoration of the cuts should bo made imme-diatoly. He said that the Government had asked employers and local bodies to accede to its request to restore the cuts, and it was only right that the Borough Council should accede to this request. Cr. D. S. Thompson, in seconding the motion, said that it was quite reasonable.

Cr. N. H. Bull asked -what was the lowest wage earned by a full-time em plovee of the council, The Mayor. Mr. f). W. Coleman, M.P.: Does it affect the principle? Cr. Bull: 1 think it does. 1 know the lowest wage. It is £2::i per annum. Surely we should wait until the law says wo should restore the cuts.

The Mayor said that £2?A per annum did not leave much for a man and his family to live on, let alone save anything on. Cr. D. S. Thompson said that the council should not wait until it was forced iuto it, but should make the restorntion voluntarily. The motion to restore the cuts immediately was lost, the Mayor, and Crs. Half and Thompson supporting il, with Crs. C. Bradley Smith, 11, E. Maude, H. Holmes, P. W. Bushnell, .1. Webb, N. H. Bull and 11. 11. DnCoata voting against it..