SELFISH SPENDING
ARCHBISHOP'S CRITICISM
Extravagant spending in wartime was severely criticised by Archbishop Mannix, Melbourne, at the Irish Foresters' Conference. The percentage of wealth going to workers could be better distributed, and better treatment could be given to the family man who was getting only a fraction of the amount he was entitled to, he said. A family man should be paid more tlian a single man. Often the single man selfishly remained unmarried so that he could spend his money on his own pleasure. His Grace declared that people were spending money extravagantly and foolishly. If such people had been compelled to, puj: money into loans for war n/jjJpfcjes it would, to some extent, ' prevented extravagant expenditure.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 11, 2 February 1942, Page 3
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118SELFISH SPENDING Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 11, 2 February 1942, Page 3
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