Mr Kent And Returned Servicemen
Sir.—Mr Kent showed at Cobden on Monday night that he knew as little about rehabilitation as he did about taxation, at Kumara earlier in his campaign. The position today is not as good as Mr Kent would have people believe.
In the majority of cases a returned serviceman came out of the armed forces with sufficient gratuity to buy a section and get married. But to build a modest home today costs at least £lBOO, thanks to high prices. Mention paths, fences and an extra or two and he is up for £2OOO. He gets a maximum loan of £l5OO, but where can he find the other £500? Then there is furniture. True, he can get a further loan of £lOO from the Government, but this will only buy one suite at the prices ruling under present Labour law. ■" So Mr Kent should realise the returned serviceman does not get off to a very good start nowadays. A Labour appeal reads, “Labour certainly gave us ex-servicemen a Square Deal,” It sounds all right but in my opinion there is at least one side missing from the square.—Yours etc. “LIVE WITH THE IN-LAWS” Greymouth, November 9.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 November 1949, Page 6
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