MR MATHISON’S MAIDEN SPEECH
Sir, —For a maiden speech, the speech of our new member, Mr Mathison, shines with brass. In New Zealand there are, roughly, some 50,000 stout fellows, whose family income is £lOOO to £20,000 a year. Those are the rich. There are some 1.200,000 with a family income of less than £4OO a year. These are the poor. We have eliminated “English poverty,” in face of English riches, perhaps the most sustained, abject, and wanton poverty in history. We have abolished the workhouse, the “social abyss” for 4,000,000 to 5,000,000 souls, the everspreading slum, the “crime” of vagrancy; but “high income” among us still opens the doors to opportunity, power, happiness; low income bangs them shut.—Yours, etc., SID FOURNIER. July 2, 1947.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25226, 3 July 1947, Page 5
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