PENSION AND GRATUITY
APPROVED BY DAIL FORMER GOVERNOR-GENERAL DUBLIN, June 4. After members of the Cosgrave Party had denounced it as a graft and one of the most disgraceful episodes m Parliamentary life, the Dail ncc'ptad a pr °P osal to grant a pension ot £5OO a year and a gratuity of £2OOO tc Donald Buckley, a former grocer and innkeeper, whose office as Gov-ernor-General was abolished last year. Mr Patrick Ruttledge. Minister of Justice. said that Buckley’s services in ’.9’6- when he was deported for participation in the rebellion, were partially the reason for the proposal.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 133, 7 June 1937, Page 7
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