Poverty line
Sir, — When reading John A. Lee’s “Children of the Poor,” I never imagined we would, some 50 years later, approach similar circumstances in the field of poverty in God’s Own Country. Statistics seemingly do not bother recording such “unimportant tragedies,” yet we have, according to a report by a well known Christchurch economist, an estimated 600,000 persons living below the Social Security poverty line under a National Government suppo sedly working economic miracles — a Government giving tax concessions to the wealthy, at the expense of New Zealand’s Governmentmade new poor. How can any God-fearing, caring Nationalist, live with this on the conscience. — I am, etc., H. R. PEERS. October 19, 1978.
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Press, 21 October 1978, Page 9
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