CADGERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 56, 7 March 1932, Page 10

CADGERS.

In the work of the St. John Ambulance the nurses come up against a lot of people who are- trying to live as parasites, and who are bringing into the world children who may be a drain on the rest of the community. This is a subject ;n which the women's societies should interest themselves. To listen to the district nurses concerning the tricks which these people try to play on them, and how they try to exploit their kindness would bo amusing if it were not so deadly. Many thoughtful people have been asking themselves for some time whether the help that is being given to tho improvident and the shiftless is not being worse than wasted, and whether it would not be better to make these |iL-oplo try to shift for themselves more. When a house is seen with all the fences down, no attempts at a garden, anl the windows with curtains which are evidently strange to eoap and water, but at tho esunc time radio wires flaunt from the roof, the observer wonders whether some of our modern contrivances had not bettor have been left a little longer in the limbo of the unknown.