Higher Allowances
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For M’Slc
HIGHER allowances for elected and native members of the Legislative Council of Papua- New Guinea have been approved by the Minister for Territories and will be payable from the opening of the second Council later this year.
Elected members will receive an additional £75 a year, plus fares, to cover the cost of visits to the main centres of their electorates twice a year, and on such other occasions as the Administrator may authorise.
Native members will be paid the cost of fares for similar travel authorised by the Administration, and a travelling allowance of £2 a day.
The Administrator, Brigadier D. M. Cleland, said the allowances should enable elected members to maintain contact with their con stituents and represent them more fully, and encourage native members to travel in their areas and develop a wider responsibility to their people.
Allowances paid in the past to non-official members have been
£4/4/- a day for meetings of the Council and Committees, plus £2 a day for the time absent from home, and £75 a year general expenses.