WAGES AND COSTS .
The Government has a habit of making things complicated. Take for instance a carpenter's wage. He gets 3/9 per hour plus, 5 per cent war bonus, plus 5/ per* week bonus for high living costs, less 12$ per cent wages tax for social and national security, less income tax paid annually on the lot including the 12J per cent he never gets. But let us stop a minute to think (I was just going to say take the first number you thought of away from it). We had a riddle at school. You think of a number, double it, add as much to it, halve it, take the first number you thought of away from it, and you can give what you have left. The crux of the riddle is the taking 'the first number you thought of away from it. In this riddle of wages and costs the worker after paying taxes and super taxes, £16 for a suit of clothes with children's clothes on the same scale, 5Jd for an orange, 7d per lb for green bananas and 2/6 per lb for beans. With houses, fiats and rooms quite unprocurable it needs no calculation to find out what is left. It is Od. E. STEVENSON.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 309, 30 December 1944, Page 4
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