TIME PAYMENT PLAN.
EVILS OF THE SYSTEM.
SILK STOCKINGS TO MOTOR-CARS. [from our own correspondent.] SYDNEY, Doc. 22. An attack on the time-payment system has been made by Dr. Morris, director of maternel and baby welfare. Dr. Morris, in the course of evidence, showed the Family Endowment Commission that he has most definite views about the results that have followed the widespread growth of time payment. Extravagance pervades the social atmosphere like a pathological miasma, Dr. Morris declared; from silk stockings to motorcars, this cure, supported and accentuated by the time payment system,, exerts its malignant influence. The individual on £SOO a year tries to keep pace with one on £IOOO a year, while the latter has the pace set for him by tho £2OOO man, and so on. A person on the basic wage cannot afford anything but necessities, yet he is surrounded on all sides by others with hired or partially-purchased luxuries. Often mothers bought expensive fiirnituro instead of providing clothes and proper food, for their children. Dr. Morris is supported by testimony in the motor trade, which shows that the proportion of motor-cars bought for cash in Sydney is relatively small.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19832, 30 December 1927, Page 10
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194TIME PAYMENT PLAN. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19832, 30 December 1927, Page 10
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