JUDGES NOT SUBJECT
GOVERNOR’S EXEMPTION WELLINGTON. March 17. Although the Governor General is specifically mentioned in Hie Finance Bill as being exempted from the salary reductions, the provision is regarded as merely formal, and does not signify that His Excellency will not voluntarily forego the one-tenth of his emolument which he recently offered to sacri. lice. Gome comment is being made on Hie fact that Hie Judges of the Supreme Court and the Judge of the .Arbitration court nri' not provided for in the Bill. The Public Expenditure Adjustment Act, by which the late Mj- Massey effected the cuts of 1921-22, exempted the Judges and the High Commissioner as well as the Governor-General. The point was mentioned to the Prime Minister this afternoon, and Mr Forties replied that the Judges’ salaries were not subject to review by Parliament, and so were not included in the Bill.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 84, 18 March 1931, Page 6
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