RETURNED SOLDIER FARMERS
TO THE EDITOR. Sir—l would like to know how the Government is going to help our returned soldiers who have farms and are working from daylight until dark all the year round in an effort to make a little to keep them in their old age. While the Government requires them to pay unemployment tax, I think they ought to be exempt from all taxes, since they have given the best of their lives and undermined their health in the interests of the Empire. A number of returned soldiers to-day who are attended by doctors and are even in the hospital from the effects of the war have to pay all their expenses out of the little they have saved. And what about their wives and families? Are they going'to starve and go about in rags while the Government is thinking about the unemployed and giving them 16s a day? Some of these unemployed are not even paying their rent for houses which they have leased from returned soldiers, and the Government will not even allow them to pay it. —I am, etc., Oamaruite.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22963, 19 August 1936, Page 14
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