RELIEF ALLOWANCES
_ If the minimum sum allowed for, board for a!. farm labourer for ;t?.xation purposes is fifteen shillings'.per week, why is it that the same Government expects a person in the city1 to live on five shillings and threepence for the same period?" (asks "Margarine"). "On the farm most of the food is. at the cost of production only, whereas by the time the city, dweller procures it there are at least three extra charges added. One would "expect the taxable amount/ for board, in the country (on farms, at any rate) would be at least a third less than in the city. It is nothing less than «sing the town dweller as a chopping block for the Government all the time."
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 27, 1 August 1932, Page 6
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123RELIEF ALLOWANCES Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 27, 1 August 1932, Page 6
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