DIRECT STATE AID.
THE FAMILY MAN’S WAGES. GOVERNMENT’S PROPOSALS. “We propose to use the funds of the State to assist the family man,” said the Prime Minister in the course of an address at Whangarei. Referring to the Labour Party’s reiterated charge that the Government intends to deduct 7s 6d a week from workers’ wages for a fund for assisting men with more than two Mr Coates repeated what he had said in earlier speeches—that Mr A. B. Piddington’s scheme, mentioned in the report of the Department of Labour, had no connection whatever with the paragraph in his own recent manifesto. The scheme, he said, had never been commented on or referred to by the Minister, and it was not the Government’s policy, as the Labour Party asserted.
“The proposal that the 'Government is making,” he said, “is that assistance should be given from the funds of the State to the man on the basic wage with a family of over two. We know that the man on the basic wage must be hard taxed to carry on. The proposal is to. make certain assistance in that direction so as to enable such a man to make better provision for housing and clothing his family.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 22 October 1925, Page 5
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