MILK RATIONS
(To the Editor.)
Sir,—The Unemployment Board's increase from £1 17s 6d per week to £2 2s per week' amounts to only la 2d and not 4s 6d as the figures would have the public believe. These are the real figures: Old rate, £1 17s fid, 30 hours per week, plus 16 pints of milk; value, summer price, 3s 4d; total, £2 0s lOd. New rate, £2 2s, 32 hours per week, and no milk—milk that means so much to children. I have six children, all of them girls, one a baby only 151 months old. Can you tell me how my wifo can. buy the extra milk my children need with the Is 2d increase!—l am, etc., ./ WILLIAM WATSON WALDQCK. [Under the new arrangement made by the Unemployment Board provision is made to meet special cases of hardship due to the discontinuance of the milk and food rations. —Ed.]
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Evening Post, Issue 25, 30 January 1935, Page 10
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151MILK RATIONS Evening Post, Issue 25, 30 January 1935, Page 10
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