WAIKATO FLOOD DAMAGE
Sir.—The farmers of the Waiklto are applying for help from the Government, and will probably, through their pressure group, get great financial help. Officials will lean over backwards with subsidies and help, as they did offering to cover cartage on hay during last summer’s drought. I quite sympathise with the farmers’ misfortune but they are hard men and would not do too much to help others in misfortune. I say. give the farmer help, but apply the means . test as apoHed to our blind neople and totally disabled young folk with families. There are a great number in this country. In other words, give him £7 a week if he has nothing, allow him to have £1 10s income: then take away £1 for each £1 earned above this.' In this way. “generous” help would be given by making no distinction between the blind and a farmer, and thus save the country money.—Yours, etc.. SILVER TUSSOCK. July 12, 1956.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28019, 13 July 1956, Page 3
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