“FATHER CHRISTMAS”
“RACE OF MOLLYCODDLES”
fFer Press Association)
Auckland, Feb. 14
“Are we becoming a race of mollycoddles,’' was the question asked to-day by Mr H. T. Merritt, in his annual piesidential address to the Chamber of Commerce when referring to the large increase; in the number of persons employed in fefte State Departments, which, he said, was largely due to the increasing demand of the public upon the State for social services.
“Tlie State,” he said, is expected to provide economic* utilities that could properly be done by organised capitalistic expxloration and also act as a huge pawnbroker for people to build their homes at less than the market price of capital, to provide free school books, dentists, doctors, and lawyers, and generally to act as Father Ohistmas all the year round.”
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Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2136, 15 February 1929, Page 5
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