"TAX THE BACHELOR."
ARBITRATION COtJRT INTERLUDE. There was an interlude during the liearing of applications for the 9a bonus m the Arbitration Court s &t Wellington on Friday, on the subject of bachelors and their salaries, which, resulted in some pointed statements by His Honor Mr. Justice Stringer. _ An advocate for a union was asking for the bonus, and the employers' representative was deprecating the present condition whereby married and single men received the same salaries. "About »i) per cent of the men in his trade are single," he said. "Are you absolutely sure?" asked His Honor. "Well," replied the.advocate,' "I can't exactly say for certain." "Ah!" replied His Honor. "Then I gather from your remarks that it you were fixing a living' wage you would fix it for a single man?" The advocate was nonplussed, but replied: "That is a ground for not allowing the bonus, your Honor." "Well, then," said His Honor, "to suit you, we would have to tax the bachelor, and make thereby a fund for subsidising the family man; for the single man cer- • tainly gets the benefit of the higher wage for the wife and family he hasn't
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 December 1920, Page 5
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