15 OCTOBER 1927, Page 32

LABOUR OUTLAYS.

Health, labour, and insurance outlays have risen from £19,000,000 to £36,000,000, though so far_ as labour is concerned it may be doubted whether the outlays haYe done much to relieve the real problem of unemployment, while so far from the heavy amounts expended for insurance having relieved the local taxpayer, we knovi that the advance in local rates is fully as appalling as the growth in the national expenditure. Moreover, with the State refusing to economize, it can scarcely be expected that Local Councils, should • be parsimonious.