POVERTY FOR ALL.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9119, 11 April 1908, Page 2

POVERTY FOR ALL.

IF THE NATION’S WEALTH WERE SHARED.

One of the prevalent delusions is that if the nation’s wealth were be equally divided it would provide a comfortable income for all. Four acute statisticians, who have been calculating what each inhabitant would receive, confessed themselves astonished, at’a meeting of the Royal Statistical Society, at the result of their investigations. In place of comfort and ease each member would have to eke out a lean livingon the daily pittance of a few coppers. Briehly stated, the _ figures arrived at by the four statisticians — Mr Chiozza Money, M.P., MrW. J. Harris, Mr “Bernard Mallet, and Mr W. N. Bailey—fine themselves down, when reduced to the limit of a daily income, as derived from investment, te the following meagre sums

Mr WTH. Bailey 9d per day Mr Ohiozza Money, M.P. 8d per day Mr W. J. Harris 5d per day Mr Bernard Mallet . per day Mr Malet’s estimate, delivered almost apolgetically in the course of the proceedings, was a new one. “It only shows us,” declared a humorist who was present, “that hard work must still be our portion. ’ ’