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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 126, 30 May 1928, Page 8

(3) men to bo employed in preference) to women, and, in fairness to the latter, bachelors in well-paid positions to bo taxed after the ago of twenty-five; (4) all married couples without encumbrances to bo taxed aimually to the equivalent of bringing up four children, and the income so derived used* i'or the maintenance of elderly spinsters. Now, Mr. Editor,' this is written by one bom sixty years ago, of colonial parents, so that practically my knowledge of New Zealand reaches back to the very early days, As I was tho oldest of a family of ton boys and. girls, my knowledge- of thrift and- economy has been gained at first hand. This fact is my only excuse for asking space in your columns in order to air what the generation of to-day will probably term out-of-date advice. However, let those at the helm to-day remember that tho thrift of the past laid tho foundations of this country in a manner unequalled in the history of colonisation. —I am, etc., OLD SETTLER.