SALARY CUTS

Southland Times, Issue 22733, 8 November 1935, Page 7

SALARY CUTS

FURTHER RESTORATION URGED.

MINISTER’S APPEAL.

(Per United Press Association.)

Paparoa, November 7. An appeal to private employers to follow the lead of the Government in granting further restorations in salaries and wages was made by the Minister of Finance, the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, in speeches in the Kaipara electorate to-day. The improvement in public finances in 1934-1935 enabled the Government to make a well deserved restoration of the greater part of the cuts,” said Mr Coates. “During the same period there has been an improvement just as marked in the budgets of the majority of private businesses. Many employers have recognized the sacrifices made by staffs during the worst of the depression and made complete or partial restorations of the cuts imposed in 1931 and 1932. When the Government was forced to impose the cuts in order to reduce costs, similar action was taken by the majority of private concerns. Now that a considerable measure of recovery has taken place and there is a strong prospect of continued _ improvement, I would urge on private employers the desirability of effecting a further restoration in line with the policy of the Government. The evidence of improved conditions is so general that there should be scope for fairly general restoration.