CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9] — Page 394

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extravagant, nor even can it be described as generous.

It is payment at the same rate as on week days.

Ordinarily the men would have that day of rest, instead of

which, on the occasions the suggested pay would be drawn, they

would have worked 10 to 12 hours.

I thought I had made it clear to the Honourable Trea-

surer yesterday, that it was not suggested or supposed that one

man would spend $3.00 on a meal and another $1.00

If it is considered as tending to pauperise the clerks

supplying a meal, and money is to be paid in lieu, from which

it will be compulsory that food is purchased, one man will clear

more than another (but one man is worth more than another)

and so it would be under any conditions, one man would eat more

than another.

To pay the seniors precisely the same as the juniors

would, I submit, be neither just nor politic.

Prize money, compensation, allowances of nearly all

kinds are paid on graduated scales; otherwise what should be a

source of gratification and a further incentive to exertion is

turned into a cause of discontent and heart burning.

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391 extravagant, nor even can it be described as generous. It is payment at the same rate as on week days. Ordinarily the men would have that day of rest, instead of which, on the occasions the suggested pay would be drawn, they would have worked 10 to 12 hours. I thought I had made it clear to the Honourable Trea- surer yesterday, that it was not suggested or supposed that one man would spend $3.00 on a meal and another $1.00 If it is considered as tending to pauperise the clerks supplying a meal, and money is to be paid in lieu, from which it will be compulsory that food is purchased, one man will clear more than another (but one man is worth more than another) and so it would be under any conditions, one man would eat more than another. To pay the seniors precisely the same as the juniors would, I submit, be neither just nor politic. Prize money, compensation, allowances of nearly all kinds are paid on graduated scales; otherwise what should be a source of gratification and a further incentive to exertion is turned into a cause of discontent and heart burning. On

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: : 391 extravagant, nor even can it be described as generous. It is payment at the same rate as on week days. Ordinarily the men would have that day of rest, instead of which, on the occasions the suggested pay would be drawn, they would have worked 10 to 12 hours. I thought I had made it clear to the Honourable Trea- surer yesterday, that it was not suggested or supposed that one man would spend $3.00 on a meal and another $1.00 If it is considered as tending to pauperise the clerks supplying a meal, and money is to be paid in lieu, from which it will be compulsory that food is purchased, one man will clear more than another (but one man is worth more then another ) and so it would be under any conditions, one man would eat more than another. To pay the seniors precisely the same as the juniors would, I submit, be neither just nor politic. Prize money, compensation, allowances of nearly all kinds are paid on graduated scales otherwise what should be a source of gratification and a further incentive to exertion is turned into a cause of discontent and heart burning. On င်

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