Hire Purchase
Sir,—Mr Heel complains about the struggling families, yet New Zealand is supposed to have the highest living standard in the world. He has forgotten tq tMte Into
account social security bene- j fits, family allowance, etc., I certainly paid for by is 6d | in the £-. Restricted sales through abolition of time payment would, I think, be inclined to lower the prices 1 of such articles, and the 1 traders would be satisfied I with a smaller profit: 10 per cent, would be saved straight away—the allowable charge I to write your name in the I book, etc. It is one way of I making the workers toe the J line, having their high wages 1 mortgaged before they get them. The monkey on the I shoulder is one of the great- J est slave-drivers yet invented. 1 I may be out in the co» but it is a greet satisfaction to say that I owe not any man. | —Yours, etc.. I BY THE WAYSIDE. April 22, 1861.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29497, 26 April 1961, Page 9
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169Hire Purchase Press, Volume C, Issue 29497, 26 April 1961, Page 9
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