UNEMPLOYMENT FINANCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 148, 25 June 1931, Page 23

UNEMPLOYMENT FINANCE.

to RVOK I a")" misunderstanding, I may _ jiave voted "Tory" all my life, but ow: there can be no other course open to Lat thinking men, but to get behind rtUt" present Prime Minister. At long last the country has to put its people— to the army of unemployed—first, n d* until they are fed and housed as «»!decently as we can get, what is the _ w( j 0 f bothering about other things ? |iiy- : and every scheme must be tried out to raise money. Certainly the unemployment levy should be at once doubled to all excepting those who can show they jKtte been two months on relief work. Women with the vote should pay the present levy, some exemption being made for' those out of a job, and not more thai two levies from one house. If a man. and wife each pay, any daughter with- the vote should be free only on application, thus many who could afford to pay would prefer to help rather than file an application every three months. A horse-power tax on cars should have deep consideration. A tax of, say, 10/ per horse on all cars carrying £200 and over insurance, 5/ per horse on . cars carrying £100 and over, 2/6 per horse on ill others. If lorries competing with the railways cannot afford a tax, I t«ke it it would have to be different to ears* then they should go back to horses or let the railway have the business* Exemption coujd be made for cream lorries and any lorries serving the community as a whole. •'} ISINGLASS.