The Real Remedy.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 538, 22 August 1932, Page 6

The Real Remedy.

To the Editor. Dear Sir, — I see by your paper that we are to have a reduction in tram fares for a Shopping Week Campaign. The shopkeepers all seem very much surprised that the housewives are not spending money very freely, but the remedy is not in a threepenny tram fare. Let Mr Thompson and all the other employers give back the wages they have cut off and they will find their turnover returning to normal. With a reduced purse of fifteen shillings a week, there is no money to spare for clothes or house furnishings. If a man is working there is no confidence in his job being permanent, and the money is better in a woman’s purse than in buying fal-de-rals The head? are all very pleased at the wage cut but they object very much to reduced takings. Of course they say that if we spend more they will employ more hands, but they don’t; they are all working shorthanded. It is common knowledge that one large office in Christchurch is making £SOOO a year out of reduced staff and wages. The remedy for non-spending is not in a threepennv tram fare but in a restitution of wages—l am, etc., HOLD TIGHT.