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T ET PS i iiiannnemmnmnm ammnnnnaniannncinninaniiconimnnnnnnnatmmmimnsimnmmmmininmnmannn in :: Ma \-J\ lSTL "RAISES" FOR MINISTERS Ferguson Introduces Bill to Increase Cabinet Members' | Salaries to $10,000--Also Proposes $3,000 ' ® *# | for Leader of Opposition A bill to increase the salartes of On--;provide for a $3.000 salary for the tario Cabinet Ministers from $8,000 mlLeadcr of ;m Opposition with ten or $ , | more members. $10,000 yearly was introduced to the | Li o apply directly to my hon-- Legislature yvesterday by Premier G--|orable friend opposite," said the Pre-- Howard Ferguson. The increases would | mier, indicating William E. N. Sin-- date from Nov. 1, 1929, the commence-- |clair, K.C., Liberal Leader. | ment of the current fiscal year. "And as for my other honorable The legislation, which is in the form | friend (Hon. Harry C. Nixon, Progres-- of an amendment to the Executive |sive Leader) I'm afraid he will have to Council Act, was forecast to some ex-- |go back to the land." ftent by the Prime Minister during the| Mr. Nixon smiled. "Have to fatten last election campaign, when he took | another pig, I guess," he said. the position that all members of the For a number of years now the $3.000 Ontario Government, with the excep-- | Opposition Leader salary has been split. tion of himself, had made a big finan-- fifty--fifty, between Mr. Sinclair and the clal sacrifice to assume portfolio, and | Progressive Leaders--first, Hon,. W. F® that, to keep good men on the job, it Raney, and then J. G. Lethbridge, both was absolutely necessary--as in every | of these leaders having more than ten walk of life--to pay them adequate | members in their respective groups. At 'salarics. the last Provincial election, however, the I Mr. Ferguson coupled the introduc-- | Progressives were able to elect only five it.ion of his bill with the announcement | members, including Mr. Nixon, while that a further amendment will be | the. Liberals, under Mr. Sinclair, elecled brought in before the session closes to | thirteen,