SUBSIDIES FOR FAMILIES.
The Austrian Government lias sot an example which even New Zealand, with its, advanced legi-slition. might yet be compelled to follow. In Austria, every civil servant receives a subsidy according to the size of his family. tTscvnifwy emfwypcmfwyp family. It is recognise! that a salary Jof £2OO, though sufficient for a man with a family of throe, is insufI fioient for the father of a family of jsix; and so the salaries are graded. In its Widows' Pensions scheme, the New Zealand Government Ins admitted the principle that there should be j a differentiation between a person J with one child, and another with, say, 1 four. The principle will have to 1 be extended, so that it will apply to ' Arbitration Court awards, as well as to Civil ServMits and other aslaries. \ The principle of a living wage . was recognised as sound in thisi country many years aco. Bu* it will surely not be argued that- a living wage for / the man with a family of three is a .living wage for one with a family of 'eight or ten. The State will have I to reeognis?, h\ some form or another, the responsibility it owes to the family I man.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10711, 17 September 1912, Page 4
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205SUBSIDIES FOR FAMILIES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10711, 17 September 1912, Page 4
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