direct and positive aayS that 8 FAMILIES WILL BENEFIT under LABOUR During 14 years of wise government, Labour introduced Social Security, the Family Benefit paid holidays and the 40-hour week: Every one of these actions made for greater family security. Included in Labour S progressive policy are these further measures for a fuller , happier family life. INCREASED FAMILY BENEFIT CHEAPER ELECTRICITY Labour will increase the Family Benefit to 15/ The high price of electricity is not warranted: Labour week for each child. Although the benefit will be subject will; from January Ist, 1955, reduce bulk electricity to income tax, the thousands of mothers who need it most charges to Electric Supply Authorities by not less than will still receive it in full. 10 % , and the consumers will benefit. E10 BABY BONUS FREE SCHOOL TEXT BOOKS Giving it to the mother when she needs it most, Labour Another burden removedl Labour will provide free will pay a bonus of E10 on the birth of each child. text books for all children in all schools: MORTGAGE-FREE HOMES As part of the Family Benefit scheme, Labour will LOWER INCOME TAX introduce a method of mortgage repayment. Parents can The first step to ease the intolerable tax burden choose between receiving the Family Benefit at the imposed by the Nationalists! Labour will reduce the basic proposed new rate or applying the value of the Benefit as rate of income tax from the present 3 / to 2/6 in the a lump sum for the reduction of the mortgage on the pound. family home, provided the home is put in the name of the mother, or becomes a joint family home STABILISED FOOD PRICES PAY-AS-YOU-EARN TAX COLLECTION Food prices have sky-rocketed under the Nationalist Labour will ease the burden of finding a yearly lump Government: Labour intends to see that food costs will sum for income tax by introducing a Pay-As- You-Earn be held. Food price levels will be stabilised to prevent any system on Ist April, 956. Furthermore , the first E100 further rise in the food index after the election: of tax due in February, 1956, will be cancelled. For W better. more prosperous family life Vote LABOUR NZ LABOUR PARTY
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 798, 5 November 1954, Page 2
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