THE FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
To the Editor. Sir,—We are all struggling settlers here, and want every penny we can earn. Yet at this month's pay on the roads, everyone was paid "short"; in some cases receiving not a quarter of what they have earned, and are entitled to. When asking how and why that should be we get the answer: "Oh, it is the end of the financial year!" To make a name for the party in power and to show how well they have done their duty to the country, they rob the worker of his wages for a couple or three months, for what? Just to show a bogus surplus to the public. The worker suffers, also his wife and children. There is no money for the storekeeper or anyone else, and credit is hard to get very often, when yuu are struggling. Just now it is so important to try and get some stores in for the winter. And now no money! Next month you will say there will be big pays; but it is not so, and the Public Works do not like paying out what a man ha 3 earned, and so it will be spread over two months, so as it will look all right at the office. It is indeed an unfair system,—l am, etc., STRUGGLING SETTLER.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 449, 20 March 1912, Page 5
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223THE FINANCIAL STATEMENT. King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 449, 20 March 1912, Page 5
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