Cost Of Living
Sir, —Having just concluded a second reading of your editorial, “The Cost of Living,” I am still confused as to its purpose. Is it your desire to cast a slur on a former Government Statistician, Mr G. E. Wood, because he is honest and courageous enough to state publicly that all is not well with the state of our economy? Four protestations that New Zealand has only “mild” inflation may earn you plaudits from Mr H. R. Lake, but will not be sympathetically received by the working people of this country who know only too well how the real purchasing power of their wages is being increasingly eroded. I, for one, challenge your premise that inflation is inevitable in our society; if this be so, how or when will it end? The voters of New Zealand last week showed emphatically that they are not satisfied with the “bigger borrow” policies of our National Government. —Yours, etc., R. L. PLUCK. Blenheim, December 3, 1966.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31235, 6 December 1966, Page 18
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