STRANGE CAUSE.
Whisky Boom Sends Up Parson’s Pay. SCOTLAND’S BARLEY. (Special to the “ Star.”) LONDON, March 4. Many Church of Scotland ministers will this year have their salaries increased by from £6O to £loo—and all because of the boom in the whisky trade with the United States. In many districts the amount of the ministers’ stipends is still based on the current market price of barley. Thus an increase in the price of barley means an increase in stipends, and as the whisky boom in America has sent barley up by about 10s a ton over last year’s figure, the ministers are expecting a substantial bonus. “ The practice is 200 or 300 years old,” Dr Campbell, joint clerk of the Glasgow Presbytery, said yesterday. “It dates from the time when ministers of the Church of Scotland took part of their stipends in kind. “In time the barter system was dropped and the grain tribute was translated into a money payment, based on the ruling market prices of grain. “ The Act of 1925 substituted a fixed stipend, but a number of ministers stuck to the old system. In any charge becoming vacant since 1925 the fixed stipend is paid.”
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20276, 10 April 1934, Page 5
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