POVERTY-STRICKEN SETTLERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 87, 13 April 1927, Page 6

POVERTY-STRICKEN SETTLERS.

1 I"' of 'ho hack blocks M-nlers de." -mU-.l in the '"SUir" should unkp the public conscience and loosen purse Wo townsfolk hoar much of hard-hip in Iho country, but we always take it for prantod that" men. women, and children there ha\e <nourii to eat. It appears that IheM* Ngaroma settlerf ha-.o not. and that they lark clothing as weiL Their ]<>t seems to be much woj>e Than that of the poor in the towns The i.nter iiave charitable aid ani the help of \ario;is organisations to fall back on. "3 hvy can get free (iocloriiip. If there is a little mon"v to fparc, they can pet cheap amusements. These unfortunate settlers have none of these things, and it soems to me that they thoroughly veil deserve help from the well to-do of Auckland, I for one am prepared to phe a trille to a fund in their aid. and I would pive it roore cheerfully than to some citv charities. I suggest that it is time some move was made to meet jural di-tress of this kind. Thesfl hardly used people ha\e to fare another winter. our re]«orter was there in Apr:]* what will conditions Ik* like in that h;ph country in June and .July? This is. goin:; to he a hard win', or. and the hack Mock- settler. r> well as the I"!' n unemplo.Md. mil n.-cu Juip. What v. l>e do'ie about :i ]"AI\M l".r. > IT. I END.