Points From Election Letters
“Do Vote. Please” suggests that waterside workers should hesitate to vote for the Labour Party, which is committed to import cuts. “Main Street” says he has a son-in-law earning £l2OO a year! with family benefit for four child-J ten. He spends £lO a week on the] T.A.B. overseas lottery tickets' and art unions and complains ofi the cost of living. Answering “Left Wondering’s” j suggestion that it would take tooi long to compute the volume of I goods and services available in the; country. F. W. Stevens says: “A| taxation department employee informed me that it would take; only three weeks to find the: amount of goods for sale in New, Zealand as they .already have thel figures in the income tax re-1 turns.” In answer to “Housing Fan.” Mr M. A. Connelly writes: “Thei Labour Party’s policy to pay the child allowance in a lump sum to a mother towards the purchase of a joint family home was in no way related to the State Advances Corporation’s loan limit.”
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28447, 29 November 1957, Page 5
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174Points From Election Letters Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28447, 29 November 1957, Page 5
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