TAXATION OF WOMEN

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 28 March 1938, Page 9

TAXATION OF WOMEN

iTo The Editor! Sir, —1 am sure there are very many women in Nelson and m the whole of New Zealand who would like to up.hold "One of Them” in her protest against the continuance ot the unemployment tax. We ale continually told how prosperous comfort. This is quite true for those whose increased wages and salaries enable them to keep pace with the increased cost of living, but how do Mr Savage and Ins Government think that the great number of elderly spinsters and widows, with a very small income which does not rise with prosperity, are faring? Life for many of them is becoming increasingly difficult, those who, t w o years ago, could live in fair comfort, are now finding it necessary to cut out most of the small luxuries which mean so much to an elderly woman in frail health. Now I have to pay 25 per ceut more for my board and rent than 1 did three years ago . the sack of wood for wheih 1 then paid 2s is now 3s and I find that all necessities of life have risen in the same proportion. Surely lone women with an income of £l3O a year or less* might be exempted from unemployment tax. I am etc., ANO r I HEtt OF THEM. Nelson, 26th March.