THE FLOUR SUBSIDY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18352, 9 March 1920, Page 8

THE FLOUR SUBSIDY.

TO THE EDITOIt. Sir,—While having no sympathy with the Conservative Government at present in power, I do not understand your objection to the only practical help that they are giving to families to meet the increasing cost of living. Tho policy of giving a subsidy to millers, if extended in other directions, such as manufacture of children’s clothes, boots and all other necessities of life, would be a great help in adjusting the unfair handicap that families aro suffering from at present, and would also help to keep down tho continual increase of wages Increase of wages is of no benefit to families, as every si. ch increase necessarily results in increased cost of living, which comes heaviest on the family in direct proportion to the number of children the parents have to support. Unmarried men and women without dependents and married people without children get all the benefit, and in many cases they wasto it on dress and face, pow/ler. The proper feeding and clothing of children deserves the help of the State, if only because it is the children of to-day who are going to protect tho country in the next war. Hoping that you will reconsider your attitude on this subject,—l am, etc., FATHER OF FOUR.