WOMEN AND UNEMPLOYMENT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20890, 4 June 1931, Page 12

WOMEN AND UNEMPLOYMENT.

Sir,—lt was refreshing to read in your correspondence columns recently a letter by an employed New Zealand woman. It had such a "lovely, unselfish tone about it that it made one pause to think, especially as ono hears on all sides the sad laments over the 10 per cent, cut on wages and men declaring nothing less than 14s a day is a living wage for them when we know our pioneer fathers lived and reared large families on 5s and 6s a day. Since the cost of living is down considerably I think 7s a day should bo a living wage unless the family is unusually large, which is not generally the case to-day. However, it was not to discuss the controversial subject of wages I set out to write, but to thank and congratulate that unselfish and humane woman for her suggestion, because by such action no real hardship is put upon anyone, such as is frequently the case with the tax on adult males, recently passed by tho Government, which, I hear, demands that a man must pay his tax before he is entitled to have his name on tho unemployment list, which drives him to borrowing from n friend without any certainty of when he can pay it back, a most undesirable state of affairs. A. D. Hamilton.