EASY FINANCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 223, 20 September 1938, Page 11

EASY FINANCE.

HOME BUILDING.

LOANS FOR FURNITURE.

PRESERVATION OF RACE.

"If youth is to be asked to pay heavy taxes for the support of the older generation, the result must be delayed marringe and fewer children," says the niai\ife»to. "Far from taxing young people, the National party stands for letting them have full and easy finance for building their own homes—not merely for renting State-owned houses.

"We will give all State tenants the right to freehold tenure and in addition, we are prepared to grant loans of £100 to young couples for the purchase of furniture, the advance to be reduced with the birth of each child of the marriage until it is cancelled at the birth of the third child. Family allowances will also be provided at the rate of 4/ a week in respect of each child over the second.

"Wo have the issue of British democracy ns against Socialism, but arising in part, out of this, there ig the fundamental issue of race preservation which can only be based on family life. Socialism necks to replace the family by the State and in doing so it ignores a matter of busk- loyalties. Family traditions nnd the family spirit have been of supreme importance in shaping the clui meter of the British race and. if family loyalties and responsibilities are allowed to die, the race will die with them.

"On economic grounds alone we cannot afford to have a declining population. This generation Ims no right to mortgage the wealth and production of fiitnru generations without enduring tlnit the next generation will be numerically Htrong enough to carry the load.

"VV<> regard this question of race preservation as something transcending tin; mere mechanics of politics and we are prepared to base our whole policy on the strengthening of family life. Complementary to this factor, we will legislate throughout on a basis of freedom, opportunity and justice for the individual."