FAMILY ALLOWANCES. Memo. by Chancellor of the Exchequer.

providing and services. in the supply of goods any corresponding increase The effects would be similar in many respects to those of an increase of wages and salaries of a corresponding aggregate amount. 6. I have also to hold the balance between family allowances and other claims on the public purse and to consider whether they are the best way of using any money that may be available for social services. The claims of old age pensioners are shortly to be the subject of discussion in the House of Commons; the education reforms contemplated by the Board of Education are far-reaching; and the grant of family allowances to the parents, whether in cash or in kind, has to be weighed against the alternative of extending the provision of meals in schools as a means of benefitting the children.