SALARY SHARING
VIEWS OF MR SAVAGE. NO QUESTION OF SACRIFICE. WELLINGTON, Thursday. Replying this evening to a question as to Ministers sharing their salaries with the rank and file members of Parliament, the Prime Minister, Mr Savage, said it was not a matter of Individual sacrifice at all- “It is not suggested,” he added, “that Ministers and associated members should receive equal amounts for their work. “Of course, Ministers certainly will receive substantially less than the usual honoraria, but that does not matter. Our aim is to get the best possible service—the best possible team work, if you like to put it that way- No one man can do the job the Labour Government and the Labour Party have set out to do. We must do the best we can within the four corners of the Civil List, and there is no other way of rewarding service. Our principal objective is to provide substantial benefits for the people of New Zealand during the Parliamentary life of the first Labour Government. If we -can succeed in that, monetary rewards really will not matter.'’
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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19816, 21 February 1936, Page 2
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