SMALL INCOMES.
If "Puzzled" is appalled at the thought of -five -persons living on £3 16/ he does not know the half of it.' What of this came family -when the "bread,winner as unfortunate enough to lose his job? The first week he gete precisely nothing and then ho gets £2 10/ per week. v. Out of this he pays anything from £1 to £1 10/ rent and endeavours to live on the rest. While he is earning up to £5 per week he is paid family alio wan cc-r-four shillings per child"after-the first-two, hut when he. gets on* sustenance''-at £2 10/ he loses this. ;, .: "■" NOT .SO PUZZLED.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 160, 8 July 1940, Page 6
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108SMALL INCOMES. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 160, 8 July 1940, Page 6
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