Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 May 1972Vol. 43, No. 5

Pay Lift Already

p. 27 · Read in the full issue

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The 100 elected members of the Third House of Assembly have already got a pay increase. It was announced just before the official opening of the House that these new parliamentary salaries would apply (old salaries in brackets): Ordinary members $4,200 ($3,000); ministers not members of the Admini strator’s Executive Council $6,000 (4,750); Speaker $6,000 plus $3OO allowance ($5,000); ministers on the AEC $7,000 ($6,000); deputy chairman of the AEC (a new post) $8,500 plus $5OO allowance. The parliamentarians also get $l6 a day attendance allowance when parliament is sitting.

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