MOTHERHOOD ENDOWMENT

Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22151, 24 September 1943, Page 6

MOTHERHOOD ENDOWMENT

DEMOCRATIC LABOUR PARTY Dealing with motherhood endowment, Mr D. C. Beloe, Democratic Labour candidate for Hauraki, said that if the country could spend £120,000,000 a year for the destruction of human life, it could afford to pay £1 each week for each child, for the care and creation of new life. Motherhood endowment was a recognition by the nation to the mothers of the nation for the gift they presented to the nation. Mr Beloe, when referring to education, said he had had lifelong connection with school committees, and today he was filling a war-time vacancy as a part-time teacher at the Pukekohe Technical High School. Teachers, along with other civil servants, had received a “raw deal” from the present Government. Extra work had been piled upon them, their miserable salaries were double taxed. Their souls were not their own. The manpower position had been muddled, said the candidate, and Price Tribunal inspectors were tiptoeing through the country, and the Bureau of Industries poked their noses into private affairs. The candidate said the Democratic Soldier Labour Party could carry out its pledges to the people. There were no financial interests behind them, and no industrial “bouncers” to hold the stick over them. EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES “Children of well-to-do parents today are forced through a drudgery of education to enable them to enter the profession of doctor, dentist or scientist, while the children of the poorer'parents have to go earlier to work and are thereby denied the benefits of free secular education. Our Party would make it possible for all children to have the best kind of education right up to the completion of the university degree,” said Warrant-Officer A. E. Allen, Democratic Soldier Labour Party candidate for the Hamilton seat.