CO129-599-2 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949 — Page 78

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semi-official entertaining; many have sons and daughters at public schools or at universities; all are within sight of retirement and not unnaturally are anxious to save to supplement pensions which are materially reduced by the changed value of money and by increased taxation. We have therefore recommended that a modest allowance should be paid to them but even with increased emoluments and the proposed allowance they will have to live at a standard very considerably lower than would have been possible on the salaries and at the cost of living that prevailed in 1939.

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