Wives Worth More; Husbands Same Rate
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The British Solomon Islands Government has at last got around to paying Government wives, who work, at the same rate of pay as single women doing the same job.
Previously, wives got only four-fifths of the rate, and this singularly cock-eyed piece of Colonial Office (or BSIP Government) logic caused a lot of heartburnings—as well it might.
It sounds like an excellent reason why one should not acquire a Government husband.
Full pay for wives is to be retrospective to January 1.
Government husbands who were hoping for a pay rise on their own account, don’t appear to be going to have this same luck. The Secretary of State for Colonies has made it known that any rise will have to come from the Protectorate’s own resources—and that would mean more taxes.