LARGE FAMILIES
POPULATION NEEDS REVISION OF ALLOWANCE URGED (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Oct. 22. In an open letter to the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser, the president of the Dominion Settlement and Population Association, Mr A. Leigh Hunt, makes the suggestion that the family allowance should not apply to the first child, but should be on a graduated scale for succeeding children up to the sixth. He states that when a couple marry it can be taken that they are prepared to bring up one child, and as population needs call for larger families the allowance should start at 10s a week for the second and be increased by 2s 6d a child to £1 for the sixth and subsequent children.
Mr Hunt points out that eveu the average family .of three children would not populate New Zealand, and stresses the need for encouraging larger families.
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Evening Star, Issue 25620, 22 October 1945, Page 4
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146LARGE FAMILIES Evening Star, Issue 25620, 22 October 1945, Page 4
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