CORRESPONDENCE.
THE RECENT ARBITRATION COURT AWARD. (To the Editor.) Sir, —After reading your leader on the above subject, which appeared on Tuesday, one could npt but teip feeling that your comment on Yhe decision of the Court was very fair. But it was, in your contention, that the single man in the past (as I suppose it will be until the end of the chapter) has the best of the bargain that appealed to me most. It is quite true that the family man should not be placed on the same footing as the single man, who has not felt tire pinch of high prices in the upkeep of the household these five years or so. Some extra allowance should be made to the (married man, according to the number of dependents he has. It is disgusting to hear these single young fellows talk about the £1 they had on this horse and the fiver on another, whilst the married man with a. family has a pretty hard time of it struggling along, denying himself and his better half many things that they would like to purchase for their comfort, but who, in these hard times, have to .do without. The imposition of a bachelor tax has been talked of for many years, but at no time does it seern better than the present, when single bliss should be bearing their share of the burden. And not only the bachelors, Mr. Editor, but the great army of spinsters, who shirk their responsibilities.—l am, etc., A FATHER OF SIX. Hawera, May 17.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 May 1921, Page 2
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261CORRESPONDENCE. Taranaki Daily News, 20 May 1921, Page 2
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