LAND FOR SOLDIERS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 200, 24 August 1943, Page 2

LAND FOR SOLDIERS

After perusing your recent paper and trying to digest "this here Land Bill, it looks like one off tne "bottom of the deck" for poor Jonn Citizen. I have got so tired of trying to make sense of all the figures and prices of land per acre, houses per square foot and timber per hundred that I would like someone to tell me where a tradesman's hourly wage will buy him less—farm, home, car, food, fruit, tobacco, luei and radio, etc., and everything else we miserable mortals crave? Even now everybody is not favoured Wltn essential work with overtime, nor yet are they lucky speculators wim money to throw away on what tney think they want. Others just don l care, for the "bill isn't due till tomorrow." When the war is over we will all be civilians and will qe paid accordingly (if lucky). we have been told that it will be years before "supply even sees demanq, therefore houses, farms and equipment, etc., will be scarce and money will be unable to buy what does net exist, in the same manner as to-aay money alone cannot buy gas, elect "* city and benzine. Who h*stne answer? DOPEY.