CORRESPONDENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 August 1922, Page 7

CORRESPONDENCE.

STATE AID FOR LARGE FAMILIES. (To the Editor.) Sir,—ln Tuesday’s issue of your paper I notice you are ridiculing Mr. M. J. Savage’s Bill for State help of large families. However, there is a great deal of good in that Bill, if you would only look for it. On reading your article it struck me that either you were a bachelor or had no family to support (of course, I am entirely ignorant on this point). Further on you say: “As for expecting single workers to pay away a proportion of their earnings for married men’s families, the idea is *OO absurd for serious consideration.” Absurd or not, Mr. Editor, you know quite well that this is being done and has been done for many years in New Zealand. Did we not during the war all pay taxes st> that the man with a large family could buy his butter 3d a lb cheaper. Was not that the same principle? I wonder if you really have any children going to school, Mr. Editor? If you have, then I wish to state that I am paying tn help to educate your child’s mind. Is that not the same principle ? If taxation to provide food for the mind is a good thing, then why not go on with the good work and Dr-.-vide good food for the child’s body as well? Single men help to educate married men’s families and don’t grumble about it. Do yju think you gave the Bill a fair run?—l am, etc., SUBSCRIBER Huiroa, August 24. (Our correspondent is evidently at sea over principles, not one of those mentioned by him having any bearing on Mr. Savage’s proposals The latter part of his letter had to be excised, it being against our policy to permit comments by correspondents on matter appearing in any other journal.—Ed.]