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EXTRAVAGANCE. SYDNEY, Dec. 8.
Before the Child Endowment Commission, Doctor Morris (Maternal and Baby AA'olfnre) declared that extravagance pervaded the social atmosphere like a pathological miasma. He said the Government concession of free outfits for babies’ clothes was much abused. It frequently came under his notice that expensive furniture was purchased. instead of providing for the expected baby. One of the principal factors, if not the main cause, of this reckless expenditure was the time payment system.
“AA'e are all in in the swim, to a greater or lesser degree,” he said. A man on the basic wage could not afford anything hut necessities. Net ho was surrounded on all sides by others with hired or partially-paid for luxuries, and he was compelled to follow them by time payment inducements. A man higher up, on five hundred pounds a year, tried to follow the pace set by the man on a thousand a .year, and the latter tried to follow that of the man on two thousond a rear.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 December 1927, Page 2
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