INFLATION AND SAVING

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 177, 29 July 1942, Page 4

INFLATION AND SAVING

In reply to Mr. Peter Maurice, may I say that I meant every word of my letter ,and if all must make the "more" sacrifices that he desires, let these sacrifices be equitable, and spread over the more favoured sections of the community. And in view of the manpower shortage, where in industry mainly new chums and second raters now prediminate, why not draft into essential work internal market assistants, trade union secretaries, and the thousands of others for whom "good" jobs have been needlessly created, and who still hold them; abolish the Upper House for ever; suspend Parliament, with the exception of the Cabinet and the War Council for the indeterminate period the latter so dogmatically prescribed. If Mr. Maurice would be agreeable, it would enable me to get a line on his sincerity. I notice one can still see a race meeting for 1/6, still go to the same picture and other avenues of amusement for the same money as in peace times. This 5 per cent for so-called security is just what I object to. for the Act, in its present form, is the most unjust farce I have seen. Why does a person in physical distress have to put up with the standing down for a week fraud before receiving a penny? Apparently food and clothing are not necessities, for he savs few. if anv necessities are sales taxed. I am still awaiting his definition of inflation, for definitions varv J. ORR.