1938 4

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A Sunday feature – each week a random section scanned from a copy of The Standard, September 15th, 1938. Find out more here.

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  1. Clockie 1
    9 June 2013 at 11:15 am

    What a cracker of a read. plus ca change, eh?..Thanks for that. I wonder who “Sheldon” was?

    • r0b 1.1
      9 June 2013 at 11:47 am

      I found it a bit confused and ranty – but yeah – Shedon wears his heart on his sleeve. Amazing how these 1938 issues are still the same today..

      • mac1 1.1.1
        9 June 2013 at 12:08 pm

        Including even the bread advert, which says “Susceptibility to disease can be greatly reduced by the quality of nourishment a child receives,” which is so in sync with food in schools.

      • Colonial Viper 1.1.2
        9 June 2013 at 8:40 pm

        It suggests that 3 generations of Kiwis later, we’re still doing something wrong.

  2. prism 2
    9 June 2013 at 8:17 pm

    He refers to getting superannuation when 60. So it has already been put up once. I really dislike the idea of putting it up to 70. I think that affordability of elder care could be helped in other ways.

    • Colonial Viper 2.1
      9 June 2013 at 8:24 pm

      I think that affordability of elder care could be helped in other ways.

      Absolutely. If this nation wanted to out of a $200B p.a. economy it could squirrel away another $1B-$2B a year for the Cullen fund. The international banks rip at least that much out of this country on an annual basis, let alone the energy companies and other infrastructure providers.

      Also, there’s the universal minimum income mate, that’ll sort things good.

      • Draco T Bastard 2.1.1
        9 June 2013 at 8:34 pm

        Yep, a Universal Income would sort things out quite nicely but National don’t like it because people would no longer have to work for others (i.e, be employed) and so rich people would a) have to actually work and produce wealth and b) slowly lose their accumulation of money.

        • Colonial Viper 2.1.1.1
          9 June 2013 at 8:39 pm

          It has to be done: that fiat/electronic “money” has to be turned into societal wealth while there is still time.

    • Draco T Bastard 2.2
      9 June 2013 at 8:30 pm

      Actually, he’s mostly pointing out that some people shouldn’t get superannuation in the current economic climate (1930s) because they already have enough, i.e, means testing. He then references insurance as a similar practice. Those people who don’t have fires are subsidising those who do and the same would be true of those people who don’t get superannuation, because they don’t need it, subsidising those who do need it.

      And, yes, the age of eligibility for superannuation has already been put up once before by, IIRC, the 4th Labour government.

  3. prism 3
    9 June 2013 at 8:42 pm

    So by Labour. How awfully amusing literally.

  4. ghostrider888 4
    10 June 2013 at 12:59 pm

    That is a very choice selection from the bread of life.