CHILD ENDOWMENT
-FRICTION IN AUSTRALIA FEDERAL SCHEME PROPOSED (Received June 21, 10 a.m.) MELBOURNE, June 20. The Premiers'- Conference is considering the adoption of a Federal scheme of child endowment.' Mr. Bruee| addressing the conference, said tlie Commonwealth's attitude was clear. The Government believed that assistance should be limited to those wage earners who were unable to roar families without unduly handicapping themselves.
The Commonwealth - Government could not accept the principle that parents able to provide for - their children should be relieved of the responsibility by the community, nor could it accept any scheme which would impose the cost of child« en; dowment ou the general revenue, or add to the existing obligations of industry or increased taxation,::. Mr. Bruce suggested that a scheme might be evolved by the States in the direction of fixing a new living wage, with incidental provision for child endowment. This could be done only with the assistance of "the Commonwealth Government, which suggested that the discussion should be directed towards the desirability of ariving at a consistent and uniform system of wage regulation throughout the Commonwealth.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16372, 21 June 1927, Page 5
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