MARRIED AND SINGLE
Sir, —As a married man. one who is at present working under the unemployment scheme and getting three days a week, I would like to point out that some of the single men evidently think they are much better off than the majority of the married men. Take for instance the single men's camp on the Parapara. The men have their camp and it rests with them whether they make it a reasonably comfortabe camp or let it bo as they found it. They get ten shillings a week for shifting eight yards of material, and I only wish that I had ten shillings a day as they have. Certainly I have a shilling or two for an occasional smoke, but clothes and such things as that must go by the board. The single men have not the worries of rent that cannot be paid, they have not the responsibility of a wife, and then they have not the additional care of children at school as many of the married men have.
A married man has no utter chance of getting ten shillings a week ele..r, where then is the call for all the argument in the paper as to the dire straits in which the single men are? “MARRIED MAN.”. Wanganui, Sept. 28.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 230, 29 September 1931, Page 6
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