SALARIES AND WAGES
“REPENTANCE BILL” A LABOUR MEMBER’S VIEW “Repentance Bill No. I’’ was how Mr W. E. Barnard (Lab., Napier) deseribed the Finance Bill, providing for increases in Public Service salaries and pensions, during the second reading debate on that measure in the House of Representatives last night. “This,” he added, “is the first. Bill which seeks to undo some of the mischief perpetrated on (the people by the National Government. The imminence of a general election is having a wonderful effect in loosening the Govern> ment’s bowels of compassion. The Government is undoing something that should never havo been done.”
“There is nd repentance about this at all,” said Mr A. E. .Tull (Govt., Wai,pawn), who followed Mr Barnard. "We are merely fulfilling a promise we made to the people, that when economic conditions improved we would restore cuts in wages and pensions, and our ability to do it seems to be worrying the Opposition. I feel a little sorry for them. They have been deprived of one of their arguments which they proposed to use a good deal during the election campaign.”
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXX, Issue 241, 18 October 1935, Page 4
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