War pensioners’ TV licences
Sir,—We knew our licences were to be doubled as part of Mr Muldoon’s dismantling of the welfare state, but we now receive a form letter inviting us to make further inquiries, and giving a long list of telephone numbers, all in Auckland, although it is obvious there is no appeal. Television is not cheap at 12c or 6c a day if it means suffering a paternal, commercial service, with the off-button our only defence. Revoking pensioners’ reductions means welshing bn a contract and $22.50 less to spend on groceries. New Zealand under Labour led the world out of misery by restoring wage and pension cuts. We could have free medicine again and a 30-hour week, but National cannot learn from history, so only the usurers benefit from technological advances far exceeding those of the thirties. — Yours, etc., VARIAN J. WILSON. October 8, 1982.
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