UST AY nt Me Heat CMT OTA EET te OMEN'S news and views WILL RMR RCA RTT a I Oe Ent RTBU ERT CCW CHAPTERS TAKE POLL Nine in ten women want Family Allowance doubled The recent poll on Family Al- lances conducted by British Col- UMbia chapters of the Congress °f Canadian Women shows that ®1 overwhelming majority of Mothers favor an increase in the Present allowance. Results also Mdicate that although many aMilies originally set aside the allowance for some special pur- Pose, such as higher education, ®Y- now find that they must Ue this money for every day and particularly the increase in the costs of food and children’s clothing since inception of the Family Allowance scheme in 1945, the allowance should be increased substantially. As one mother of five children told an interviewer, ‘‘My hus- band has had a couple of pay increases in the last two years. but what with hospital insur- ance, increased income tax and now old age pension deductions, Living costs increase — but not Family Allowances. *ssentials in an effort to keep Ho, With the rise in the cost of aut the total number of per-