fTo THR EDITOR OF TIIR "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—By the issue of
wages stamps a huge reserve fund could be amassed to meet the proposal to find 5s. weekly pensions to workpeople on attaining sixty years. Workmen making less than E1 a week might go free, but a penny weekly wages stamp for every pound or other amount could be affixed to a com- pulsory receipt by the employer, to be deducted from the wages, the workman having the right to recover its the County Court any wages for which during three months the employer cannot show a stamped receipt. In the case of men on piece- work the wages stamp would appear on the first payment made during the week which amounted to El, and the same with outside workers. Gangers would pay on the amount paid them by the employers, they deducting due proportion from their men,—in fact, they would be treated as employers. If the wages stamps were issued perforated, and the workman affixed his half in a book, similar to the Savings Bank book, and the employer his in his wages-book, the State would have very valuable information as to the many skilled pieceworkers who, although earning over 215fi_ a year, yet evade Income-tar. Payers of Income-tax should be exempt from this wages. stamp scheme, they paying their quota through the Com-
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