The Dominion. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1933. FOOTING THE BILL FOR RELIEF

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 20, 18 October 1933, Page 8

The Dominion. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1933. FOOTING THE BILL FOR RELIEF

Despite heavy calls durit® the winter the. Unempl managed to W ‘“jX’wSJ ’showed that expenditure had A the busy production season now bCgi "Se is cause-for satisfaction in the isX are being relieved out of cl ' rrc '' l on t 0 posterity. Many the sort of charge which should be tanded on to poste X J have been advocating borrowmg to such a purpose. VS't i“ J Id’hopeXlome ease-' States. It should not be forgotten, however, that since the fall of the Labour Government in New n , Um of unemlyedfes dropped from 200,000 to 115,000. New Zealand i still awaiting a diminution in the number out of work and, until occurs the Minister of Employment holds out no hope of tax relief. It’is a question whether Mr. Hamilton should not anticipate events, instead of waX upon them. In Australia the idea is that heavy taxation has helped to intensify the depression, to stifle enterprise, to cut down staffs, and generally to create unemployment. It is significant at any rate, that every increase in unemployment taxation here has been followed by an increase in the idle. Distress has pressed closely on the means of relief. Should not New Zealand attempt, as they are doing in Australia, to reverse the process, to work on an ascending instead of a descending spiral? <