How the Money Goes.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1870, 13 August 1886, Page 2

How the Money Goes.

Ministers of the Crown in this colony get capital “ screws,” ranging from £IOOO to £I7OO a year. But they have " pickings ’’ besides, in the shape of 11 Ministerial residences ’’ and travelling expenses. A return was laid on the table of the House recently, showing the travelling expenses of Ministers during the past financial year. The respective amounts are as follow Travelling Travelling allowance expenses £. s d £ a d Sir B. Stout .. 107 5 0 101 2 0 Sir J. Vogel .. 308 14 0 16 13 0 Mr Bichardsou.. 168 0 0 161 11 0 Mr Latnaoh .. 329 14 0 279 13 6 Mr Ballauce .. 266 14 0 ■ 150 7 4 MrTole .. 107 8 0 13 5 0 Mi Buckley .. 35 14 Q 54 14 0 Total .. £1323 9 0 £777 6 4 The total allowances and expenses of Ministers’ attendants amounted to £459 13s lOd and £253 2s 3d respectively. The aggre gate expenses of Ministers’ travelling daring the year amounted, therefore, to £2812 12s sd. That was an average of £4OO to each individual Minister. Ministers did not by any means spend all this money, but pocketed and saved a good deal of it. In those “ hard times ” with hundreds of “ unemployed ” and their wives aud children suffering from cold and hunger, it is moustrous that Ministers should be so extravagantly paid iu the matter of salaries aud allowances.