FALSE ECONOMY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 176, 27 July 1928, Page 6

FALSE ECONOMY

COUNCIL STAFF SALARIES BUSINESS MAN'S VIEWS A Wanganui business man considers that the City Council was ill-advised in nut making increases in the salaries of its staff last Monday evening. Discussing the matter yesterday, no said he lo.oK.cd upon the Council staff as a highly efficient body ami, expressed the opinion that any business man, in order to retain the services of a competent staff, considered it a govd policy to pay salaries commensurate with the services rendered. 'Further conversation elicited the opinion that the salaries of the Wanganui Council’s officers were much lower than those paid in other towns arid, cities throughout the Dominion. It was further stated that it was ba« economy to attack the salaries of the staff when efficiency was at stake, especially at a time when, as councilors hud put it themselves, there was every need for economy. He held War the best economy could be effected by retaining the staff in their present relative positions and paying them according to the services given to the city. He also mentioned: that he knew of one young officer on the staff wno had been successful in last year’s accountancy proficiency examination. He understood that there were two others who also gained passes in several of the subjects for which they sat. This indicated that tho standard of efficiency generally ami the tone of the Wanganui City Council official division was a high one.

Lawn Tennis Tourists The many thousand lawn tenuis devotees in New Zealand have been looking forward to receiving further news about the projected visit to the Dominion of a party of players from England. It is understood that an intimatin has been conveyed to tho English Lawn Tennis Association that it would be more suitable if the tour could be arranged later in the season instead of in October, as was at first suggested. If the tour takes place - in the late .summer or autumn it will, a leading Wanganui player stated yesterday, give a decided impetus to the game in NewZealand. A Dangerous Practice “What would happen to a motorist if he backed round the Post Office corner on his wrong side at mid-dr//? ’’ asked a local man yesterday. “He’d get ‘pinched,’ of course. Yet every day lung lines of trams and trailers do it and nothing is said.’’ Every lunch-time at this busy corner, the bystander can see some motorist or cyclist miss a tram by inches. One day this week a car coining up tho Avenue was motioned on by the inspector on point-duty, but a backing tram claimed the. right-of-way. Consequently there was a collision. A by-stander remarked that it would not be much trouble for the public or the tramway authorities if the cars were to start from Taupo Quay, and it would certainly make tho Post Office corner safer.