THE TRAVELLING CONCESSION.
Apropos of the granting of free passes to legislators by the Union Steamship Company, the Dunedin Star says:—
"The scandal does not lie so much in the official plea for concessions as in the sordid necessity behind tho request. Ministers and members of Parliament should be made independent of the need of business favours. It is conceivable that some members of Parliament may at times owing to the burden of the cost of living and the extra burden of many subscriptions to all sorts of good causes, be confronted with the necessity for a bag of potatoes far more than a free steamer passage. The Government should frankly impress upon the country that the remuneration of their legislators is scandalously inadequate, and must forthwith bo increased to such a standard as to place members of Parliament beyond the need of accepting favours, which thrust them willy nilly into the tittle tattle of popular suspicion. If there is impropriety in the politician's acceptance of concessions, it is equally shared by the people, who pay their Parliamentary workers a docker's wage."
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Wairarapa Age, 15 June 1920, Page 4
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