LADIES' BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.

Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 160, 7 July 1909, Page 8

LADIES' BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.

(To tLe Editor.) Sir, —Will you add one more to the many services you have often so freely Tendered to our Society and to the desolate and oppressed? There are many heavy hearts in Auckland to-day. We could take you to homes darkened with the shadow of that grim spectre want. Fathers go out for work as on a forlorn hope, and some mothers, looking upon their children's pale faces, wonder how they will satisfy their hunger. Some are sick and downhearted, ilany need the ministry of our Society. The committee I feel that they are unequal to the work without outside help. There are many who can help in the laudable ministry of works of mercy and pity. Will any I turn a deaf ear to us in this day of I adversity? I believe not. Aucklauuers never have failed to help the poor and needy—they never will. i We must have a street collection for our Society, or the sick and the poor will suffer sevprely, md in a manner we cannot bear to think of. Mrs. N. A. Nathan, wife of the president of the i Benevolent Society, has very kindly ar- j ranged to have a meeting next Thursday j at 3 p.m. at her house, Princes-street, j opposite the Var* gatos, to organise a street collection in :.id of the Society. Mrs. C. M. Nelson, president of the Ladies' Committee, is most anxious that I all ladies who can help will attend the I meeting;. The demands on our Society are unusually heavy at present, and we have slfll before us two months of wet, cold, winter weathnr. We plead for the poor of Auckland—the sick, the widow, the fatherless children, whose anxious, pinched, upturned little faces betoken want of food and clothin?. Those who cannot stand in the cold street all day and collect money may possibly be able to send to Mrs. Nelson some subscription.—l am, etc., F. G. EWTXGTOX, Hon. Secretary.