STANDARD OF LIVING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 187, 11 August 1941, Page 8

STANDARD OF LIVING

"■ ♦ '■ '■ CANNOT BE MAINTAINED MR. DOIDGE’S CONTENTION (PA.i Parliament Bldgs.. Aug. 7. Mr. F. W. Doidgc (Nat.. Tauranga* I expressed appreciation of the add!-'-tional provision made in the R’ll for; ■soldiers* dependants. Costs were in- : creasing al such a rate, he said, that

people on pensions could not keep up with them, and the Minister of Finance would have to bring down amendments again and again to meet the position. The Labour Government accused other Governments of cutting wages, but they had made worse cuts than any by an insidious increase in the cost of living. There would soon he 100,000 men in uniform, and that would mean 200.000.000 working hours lost in a year. How could the Government maintain the standard of living under conditions like that? The debate was interrupted by the

| adjournment at 10.30 p.m.. when Mr. n Nash intimated that it would be conn tinned next Wednesday. t Just before the adjournment Mi-, a Nash laid on the table the report of p the River Control Committee, v.hirh ,f ho .said, could be considered with the Soil Con.se r\-a lion and Rivers Control !P Dill introduced that evening.