On Tuesday, June 4, 1940, at 9.30 a.m.
H.C.L. Allowance:
.|The Reader Who Gasps To the Editor of the "Norta-Cumwa Darcy NEWS"
Sim,—I beg leave to quote two extracts from the Council's statement on H.C.L. allowances for Municipal servants, converting the sterling figures into local currency. at the rates of 1/2% and 4d, respectively, which I take to be the correct meaning of the paragraph.
Letters testifying to the gravity of the employees' plight were received...
The Council pay-cheque of a head of "department with three years' seniority, which in 1936 was equivalent to almost $2,800 a month, was recently worth uncer $4000 a month. Such a State of affairs cannot continue without a danger of disintegration of the municipal service.
That, verbatim, is what the Council says, adding; three separate places the information that it is under threat of resignation from employees in this grave plight.
Comment on this s useless: one can only gasp.
But what, one wonders, will be the pay-cheque henceforth of the gentleman in the above plight? And what will it be after he has again threatened to strike, when the effect of Fru Lemons each Bananas 4 Apples (Far East) 1b.
Oranges (Mandarin) lb. Oranges (Imported). 14 Fears (Far Fast) Do*
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