RELIEF OF DISTRESS.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 262, 5 November 1929, Page 6

RELIEF OF DISTRESS.

I have read with interest two letters, one by "Onlooker" and the second by "Another Onlooker" on the subject of the relief of. distress. The second of these correspondents takes the liberty of recommending one particular organisation, which, incidentally, is quite of recent origin. Your readers will be interested to know that the charge of overlapping which is levelled at the social organisations is entirely unwarranted. If your first correspondent read his daily papers as he should he would have known that a Social Workers' Association has been formed, at which the various dispensers of charity can compare notes whenever they choose. Your second correspondent's remarks that the Business Men's Relief Service makes full and careful inquiry and has a balance-sheet audited is foolish, because no charitable organisation could I'. o twelve months unless it put its cards on the table. I cannot allow "Another Onlooker" to draw particular attention to his own pet society without mentioning the urgent needs of such well-known bodies as the Salvation Army, the Auckland City Mission, Sister Esther, Sister Hannah, Ladies' Benevolent, St. John Ambuetc. These are all old-established societies who, in my opinion, have the entire confidence of the general public. PRACTICAL SYMPATHY.