MIDDLE-AGED UNEMPLOYED
Now that it has been deemed fit to pension off the ordinary working man on relief work at the age of fifty, why not go one step further and stand down all men over the age of fifty? Mr. Forbes stated some time aq:o that New Zealand did not want to be like England —'•money for nothing"—but in England a worker has 1/6 per week deducted from his wages, which entitles him to benefits from the Unemployment and National Health Fund. He has no wage tax to pay on small earnings, 110 levy (which in New Zealand is just a temporary measure) and 110 tax 011 a steamship ticket if he should want to leave the country to better himself. A scheme devised to enable a man to get to the land of work and living, and thus ease up the taxpayer of' this country, who would then not have so many unemployed to support, would be a great saving of money in the long run. TRAVELLER.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 12, 15 January 1934, Page 6
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