POLITICAL NOTES.
PARLIAMENTARY SALARIES. (From Our Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, August 17. The news fr&m';'Australia to the effect that on account of the financial stringency the South-Australian Government has 1 decidecT not to proceed with the Bill for the increase of Ministers' and members' salaries, has revived speculation as to what Mr. Massey will do in this respect when he resumes charge of a soTelytaxed Treasury; He hinted before he left for London that if the financial position took an unfavourable turn it might be necessary to review the increased salaries "of the members of the House of Representatives, and actually announced that if : reductions were necessary, Mmisters would be the first to submit to tho disagreeable process. It is a subject on which members naturally are very reticient, but it is lib* expected that a movement for a reduction will come from any .private' member./ This is not to say that members are not prepared to bear their share of tho passing burden. That they are, goes wilnout"saying. But this is essentially a matter for the determination of the Government.
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Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 14741, 22 August 1921, Page 5
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