§ Sir CHARLES HENRYasked the Secretary to the Treasury if he is aware of the dissatisfaction existing amongst a number of County Court clerks who, although engaged the whole of their time on County Court work, are denied a bonus; and whether, seeing that many of them have received no increased remuneration during the War, he proposes to take any action in the matter?
§ Mr. BALDWINThe Treasury has no power to grant a war bonus to the clerks employed by Registrars of County Courts where they are paid out of the Registrar's statutory remuneration. They are unknown to the Department and the Legislature has not given the Treasury any control over the Registrars in such cases. It is entirely a matter for those officials to determine what proportion of their remuneration shall be assigned to the staff they find it necessary to employ in the business of their office.