CORRESPONDENTS' VIEWS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 169, 19 July 1941, Page 6

CORRESPONDENTS' VIEWS

MORE NONSENSE

(To the Editor)

I The Hon. Walter Nash j speaking at Birkenhead on ThiniS® last, referring to benefits Social Security Act. said free cine was now available to I Mr. Nash went on to say a | gets back four times as I pays in. Now if every person back four tunes as much as he in, where does the Hon. his money from to pav all the rSLf? 1 employed in the Social SecuritvTi Placement Offices throughout Zealand. A little later, lieT&fi* Government would have irT I about £400,000 in the coming vpa«>« keep the price of sugar at the j»'Jr level and £240,000 for a pose for bread. Will the Minister tell us how he intend ?" find the money. Probably from«£ thrifty persons. The people mg for the Government and dtv councils do not realise that tSK wages come from their fellow mSf by way of taxes and although they themselves certain percentage of their wa«£ stopped for social security, it r «Sj; comes from other sources. Mr referred to the coal miners T wif? to state that I worked und'erercunri for two years in Taihape, and I also in the Waihi mine. I found tw I was better off underground out of the elements of the weather than working felling bush. I felled bud? which is a winter job, for manv vearc and the majority of nights tame home wet through. I think the Bm. Mr. Nash thinks anything eZ enough for the producer, while an other sections of the communis must have better conditions. are made to catch votes, not forth* good of the county. A THINKER.