PUBLIC OPINION
“hast thing we should try TO DO.” “We have our oivn plans. I believe they are better than those of the Roya/l (Commission. The lajst thing we should try to do is t-o reduce benefits i.and increase the contribution, but it is essential if we-a.ro to maintain our financial stability that the insurance fund should be put on a proper insurance basis: It is essential that there should be a difference drawn between those who are getting insurance benefit for udiieh they have contributed and those who by their own fault or misfortune—it makes no difference—are out of benefit and exist on the charities of their neighbours. It is essential that we should get rid of those false and mischievous ideas that it does not matter whether you work or not the State ought to see that the people who do mot work are as well off as those who do.”—Viscount Hailsham, Conservative leader in the House of Lords.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 September 1931, Page 8
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161PUBLIC OPINION Hokitika Guardian, 2 September 1931, Page 8
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