SUSTENANCE FOR WOMEN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22900, 1 December 1937, Page 17

SUSTENANCE FOR WOMEN

Sir, —A man 011 sustenance gets £1 a week, whether he lives at home or boards; a woman gets 10s a week if sho lives at home and lis if she boards. Where she finds hoard and lodging and buys the bare necessities to keep herself clean and tidy 011 14s a week I don't know. A man and his wife get 355, and if the wife dies the man gets £l, but if the man dies the wife gets nothing, urdess, she goes to the charitable aid board. We women pay our unemployment tax, apparently to keep the men. If it costs £1 to keep a man it costs just as.much to keep a woman, or is it that the extra is for beer and 'baccy? ilt is time that men dropped the comfortable idea'that women live on tea and bread and butter because they like it. Fair Play. [Sustenance is paid through the Women's Unemployment Committee to women without means who are out of work and able to work. The payment of the amounts of 10s or 14s is, however, at the discretion of the committee. If a husband dies and the wife is indigent, she is entitled to a widow's pension. Moreover, allowances may be obtained by a family in indigent circumstances under the Family Allowances Act. —Editor, Hkkald.]