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Otago Witness, Issue 4039, 11 August 1931, Page 54

Every citizen of the Chilean Republic is compelled to save for his old age by means of a system whereby 7 per cent, of his wages is withheld each week. Unless he requires the money for medical purposes or wishes to build himself a home he cannot draw on his savings account until he retires. Agitators are promptly deported before they can do any harm. Some idea of the amount of correspondence which has to be dealt with as a part of the operations of the Unemployment Board was given to a Christchurch Sun reporter recently. It was learned that an average of 2900 letters is received at the 'Wellington headquarters of the board each week, the bulk of them, presumably. being from the 250 local committees scattered all over the Dominion.