FAMILY BENEFIT
POPULATION ANGLE APPEAL TO PRIME MINISTER P.A. WELLINGTON, this day. In an open letter to the Prime Minister, Mr. Fraser, the president of the Dominion Settlement and Population Association, Mr. A. Leigh Hunt, makes a suggestion that the family allowance should not apply to the first child, but should be on a graduated scale for succeeding children up to the sixth. He states that when a couple marry it can be taken tnat they are prepared to bring up one child, and as population needs call for larger families the allowance should start at 10/ a week for the second, and be increased by 2/6 per child to £1 for the sixth and subsequent children. Mr. Hunt points out that even an average family of three childrsn would not populate New Zealand and stresses the need for encouraging larger families.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 250, 22 October 1945, Page 6
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