Cost of Living
Sir, —Mr. Savage has said, “No one has anything to fear, and no one is going to be hurt.” The people who are being hurt by the high cost of living are those with small, fixed incomes, which were reduced when the rate of interest was lowered, and now, owing to rates, or rents, fuel, clothes and food, which are nearly doubled in price, these people are finding it very hard to live, for most of them are too old to work and are not eligible for the old-age pension. And yet they havq to pay the levy and unemployment tax to help people who are better off than themselves. ■ *
I hope when Mr. Savage makes hie tour of New Zealand he will tell these unfortunate people what his humanitarian Government is going to do to help them without hnrting their pride of independence, for until now they have had enough to live on.—l am. etc., DEEDS, NOT WORDS. Wanganui, August 2.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 264, 4 August 1937, Page 11
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