MAORI URGES THE ABOLITION OF SOCIAL SECURITY
Concern at the detrimental affect social security was having on the present standard of living of both Maori, and Pakeha in New Zealand was expressed by Mr Stewart Meha, Hastings, at a meeting of Maoris of the Eastern Maori Electorate at Ruatoki during the weekend. He urged that it be done away with or modified to the extent that all able bodied men be made to work for their living instead of relying on the different benefits. Mr Meha said that he had noticed in Hastings, his own home town, many men capable of working but who were loafing because they received enough to live on from social security benefits. This was the same of both Maori and Pakeha.
He referred to the present social security scheme as a “warm blanket” for New Zealanders, under which many people hid to escape working. He urged that “this wet blanket should be taken off and thrown away.” Today there were far too many able men in the country hiding under “this warm blanket,” Mr Meha concluded. The people appeared to have forgotten the biblical saying, “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.”
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 2, 22 June 1949, Page 5
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200MAORI URGES THE ABOLITION OF SOCIAL SECURITY Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 2, 22 June 1949, Page 5
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