RUSH FOR RELIEF.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 261, 3 November 1928, Page 12

RUSH FOR RELIEF.

CONDITIONS NOT IMPROVING.

BOARD'S HOPELESS TASK.

So numerous had been the rush of applicants for relief that the chief relieving officer of the Hospital Board had sat up till well after midnight before the Relief Committee met yesterday, so that he might have the sheets prepared and the recommendations made for the members' consideration. The list from all points of view was a formidable one of 240 names—not quite a record, but well up to the longest list. At the close of the relief meetiag the members at a late hour discussed the position. They agreed that there was never a time in the history of the relief work that they felt so helpless to deal with the situation a3 now. The cases they had investigated that day showed them that distress was very acute, and they were anxious in this time of flux in the Dominion's history that the general public should know to the full the true state of affairs. Members were inclined to ask if, after the election on the 14th, things would drift on in just the same hopeless way, or would a ray of sunshine be seen I through a rent in the darkened clouds ?