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New Zealand Tablet, 29 April 1920, Page 17

A small number of very rich men have been ablo to lay Upon the teeming masses of tho laboring poor a»yoke little better than that of . slavery itself.—Leo XIII. si. The derivation of our word."salary" is very curious. In ancient times Roman "soldiers received a daily portion of salt as part of their pay. ''Sal," in Latin, is salt, and when the salt was, in course of time, commuted for money, the amount was called "salarium," or salt money. Hence our "salary," and hence, no doubt, the expression, "'Not worth his salt!"—that is, his salary. . , '■£« -2