18 APRIL 1941, Page 14

OLD PEOPLE AND T1IE BUDGET

Six, —Would not it be possible to-exclude those over 65 or 7o from the receneBudget proposal to reduce personal income-tax allowances? All older people are willing to shoulder cheerfully their share of the war-burden and have accepted without demur the successive drastic cuts in their incomes necessitated by the increase in Income-tae. But many are struggling in bad health to make ends meet, and any suggestion of saving, either voluntary or compulsory, sounds in their case not only out of place but a bitter irony.—Yours faithfully,