SECOND DIVISION.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15343, 4 October 1917, Page 4

SECOND DIVISION.

LAST NIGHT'S MEETING. : A meeting of the Wfivganvi braneii of the Second' Division League was held i\ the Opera House last evening-, when the reports of the delegates, Messrs Slip* per, Burnett, Rose, and Sogers, who at. tended the recent conference in, Wellinip\ ton, were read. 9^ r Subsequently Mr Slipper referredr v fd the leading article which appeared m our morning contemporary, and which dealt at length with Mr Slipper's con'tention as far as the League is csiu-, ctrned. Proceeding, Mr Slipper gav<j v/bat he considered to b© the weekly expenses of an ordinary household, and ho aeked if they, were too high or too low. His figures were as follow:—Gas 2s 6d, meat 7s 6d. bread 4s 6d, grocer 15s, 'fuel Is 6d, milk 3s; total, 3'te, Out of the proposed allowance Of 35s to a wife, it left a shilling for clothes, boots, fruit, ar.d vegetables, while many other things would" have to be in the category of luxuries; 7s Gd alone would probably;, bo required for clothes. A lady's voice. Say 10s Mr Slipper: All right. I am open t« correction, but for the sake of not inter* l'ering. with my figures we will leave itj at 7b 6d for the present. Con*, tinning, the speaker. said if therei were two children it would cost at least 5s per week to clothe them. Doctor and medioine 3s, school requisites Is, vege-. tables and fruic 2s, cycle or tram £s; total 25s 6d per week for other ne-<, cessities. Add this latter amount on to the 345, and the sum of 59s 6d per weeks is obtained. The assumption was thau the Government was going to pay rent* taxes, etc., and then a balance of 3s 6dj was left per week out of the .£3 which the League claimed was an ade< quate allowance. The question involved*' was could the country pay the bill, and! personally he thought it could. The; speaker then went on to quote in support of his contention. At the conclusion of the meeting* M 4 Young moved the following resolution, which was declared carried ly : —"That the reservists of the Wanga-*. nui Second Division League enter ant emphatic protest against the letter writi' ten to the Minister of Defence by Mi?' L. D. Paterson, bearing yesterday's date* and point out that he has no authority to make any representations on behalf of the Wangianui Second Division League."