Answers to Correspondents

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 114, 7 February 1935, Page 11

Answers to Correspondents

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Women’s Hardships

Sir, —Could any of your readers tell me what provision, if any, the Government is making to help the needy women of New Zealand? I quote my own case. I am well past middle age, have worked hard all my life, as did my father before me, so as to have enough' money invested, as he thought, to ensure a comfortable though not by any means a luxurious old age. To do this required hard work and rigid thrift.

Interest was lowered, and my little income became less, and was, in fact, a bare living existence. Now the Government talite of further restrictions in favour of the mortgagor, which will probably take place about the middle of February. In good times I could pay my 1/- in the pound unemployment tax to help others less fortunate than myself. But the Government only gives unemployment relief to men —not to women. No one wants to employ an elderly woman who is past doing hard work, and I am not yet of an age to benefit by tiie old-age nension. If the Government carries out all its proposals in February, what is to happen to the needy elderly spinsters?—l am, etc., ! ONE OF MANY.