POINTS FROM LETTERS

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 16, 19 July 1932, Page 6

POINTS FROM LETTERS

It is submitted by "A Relief Worker" that, though city, Hutt, and Petone relief workers have cause for complaint, they are considerably better' Off than men , in Makara County. The latter do not come under the new scheme of 10sa day and no stand-down week, but fpr-the first time since the wage' was.reduced'•:to '12s 6d they have had three weeks.* full-time. No information .waa given ;ias" to rations in the stand-down week j. but, they are now told that as s they ..are receiving;. £ull: time they are expected to. carry; fjirongh on that. - Pay is npt available jail.Saturday, anj in the meantime families receive, only a little meat and vegetables from ithe 1 Inter-Church Committee.' "'■.'''

"Give It a Trial" writes: "Viewing the remarkable results produced by the people of Ireland-and. other countries by way of State sweeps to provide money for hospitals, one notes the huge amount—totalling £2,825,357—the Tesult of five sweeps. The sum is free from any tax. Thus the-hospitals have benefited to the extent, of nearly three million pounds. We in' New Zealand are about. overtaxed,, and. the time is ripe for the people themselves, to move, if the Government will not Start" State National Lottery Bonds to provide money for hospitals, and for the unemployed, stf that the Consolidated Fund and. the public may be relieved of ; the heavy. burdens they are at present carrying. It is useless for any section of the community to call State JBonds a lottery or a gamble. Give the' State Lottery Bonds a chance to prove whether they will be approved by the, public;, the; verdict will settle the question".; ' ■