WHAT IS NOT IN THE BUDGET.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9655, 20 November 1909, Page 3

WHAT IS NOT IN THE BUDGET.

Speaking on th.3 Budget propasj s in the House, Mr Fisher said he regretted to see how iittli had dene by the GovvriMien*; for tie preponderating class in the' Dominion - the artisan Ci3B". Tne I.»=t censjs J had shown that the two largest sec- j tiona of tha-communitv were the in- i dustrial worker?, 124,000, and the primary producers, 118,0.10. Nine jier cent of the industrial workers are employers, 18 per cent of tiie pri- ' raary producers are employers. The proportion of unemployed was lower amongst tne agriculturists than in any other section of the community. Whilst all city merr.bt.rs were glad to see the State providing cheap money for the setters, yet the time had come when that se-tion oftlieconmur.ity least alle to help thenis. Ives should be considend. Tn t ';ii amount of advances autrni isej to stt.lers has reached £9,206,921. The amount advance.! list year uio.nj was £1,202.395. Thirty men who ownad property wo th. £125,000 had borrowed £75,000 i'r.ira the State. Was it the function or th : * stite to t.elp men who were well . blj to help thtmsdves, whilst it'> i deserving A assistance had to g > v'i'pty handed? Against the £1,202,895 advanced to settlers last year, t : '" id.a'ict," to Workers Department only /ent out £307,495, The average r.dvan*« to Settlers on freehold ..-._ £o.i: I* Wtfrk ers £276. It was n '.te try. that the settler did not enjoy Ll.e brr.cfits tf ( the city, but on the o f ! er lut.d '!'_ was n3t subjected to th; t::'..potions of the City. Tne tity p oplj realised the advantages of the country settlor. They did not desire to deprive them of those advantue-, hj: t rather that more people thuuLi i.elp <<- , share them. The artisan, n^;~ c " r rompelent, however r^akr'h\s\mployment, had no chance wha'-eVefof a competency and it was til*»; e t j ie conditions of j this cM* ' rfere more cl.jstly studied I a p 4 Remedial legislation brought tne Budget that our national wealth had increased to 600 millions, when the industrial classes were na better off financially than ten years ago.