Very fortunate

Re: ‘Something is out of whack here', The Weekend Sun, January 4, 2019.

I don't know where A Bourne was working, but he must have been very fortunate. I started working in 1968 when the minimum wage was $1.40 – and my salary was $2000pa, which was considered good money then. Anyone on $7 per hour would have been very well off. Also, I could do all my groceries for $10-15 per week. It is all relative. Don't forget there was also no equal pay – men did get paid more for the same job. I did payroll at a factory back in the late-1980s and if my memory serves me well, I believe the minimum wage was still less than $7 - around $6.70 or thereabouts.

E Pearce, Katikati.

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