A WOMAN CADGER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 215, 11 September 1931, Page 11

A WOMAN CADGER.

THE GREATEST MEANNESS.

To what depths of meanness women can sink was mentioned by the convener of the Victoria League Sewing Circle yesterday, when speaking of the great need in the country for help and what the Victoria League tried to do for those who need help, and ..also how the women s ■'institutes had helped. A woman wrote to the convener asking for clothes, because they were very poor and clothes had been sent to her several times, when, through the medium of the women s institutes it was discovered that she was by no means 'ill provided for. The family owned their own house, had a cow, and the man was in regular work. The convener wrote to the mill owner where her husband worked and aeked about,- tJie family, and the mill owner replied that they were by no means destitute or ill off. Strange to say a letter had crossed, saying that she had a six months baby, and also had: taken-in two earthquake orphans from Napier. Mrs. J. B. Maefarlane again wrote to. the millowner and was informed that there was no baby, neither had she any orphans staying with her. Unfortunately the law of libel prevented' the sewing committee of the league telling this despicable cadger what they thought of her, so it is hoped that the neighbours may .remedy the defect if they know that such things are happening in their district. This idea of exploitation of the generous amongst us by the cheap and mean does not get the odium which it so richly deserves, and on this point the public should make their weight felt in the interest of those who are suffering dire straits and who may be prevented from obtaining what is ready for them by a small number of mean cadgers.