SOCIAL WORKERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 155, 5 July 1933, Page 9

SOCIAL WORKERS.

ASSISTING THE POOR.

ORPHANAGES HARD HIT. Expressing the hope that the public would give every support to "Prosperity Week," several speakers representing the Auckland social workers touched upon the work of the organisation at a meeting held last evening. The speakers represented the various bodies comprising the association and the Council of Christian Congregations. Archdeacon Holbrook (St. Vincent de Paul Society) mentioned that the two Catholic orphanages had been hard hit. About £3000 was required for a year's maintenance of the orphanage and 150 children, and only half the amount was in sight. Only Providence knew where the other half was to come from. Whether members of the association agreed with all the proposals which had been brought forward by the Mayor or not, they were sincerely grateful for the help and interest he had consistently shown in the interests of the poor.

The Rev. Jasper Calder (Anglican city missiouer), the Rev. T. Jlalliday (Presbyterian Social Service Association), the Rev. E. A. Orr (Methodist city missioner), Major T. Holmes (Salvation Army Samaritan officer), and the Rev. E. G, Moreton (Anglican prison chaplain) spoke of the charitable -work accomplished in their respective inheres. Mr. Moreton gave details of the work done in assisting discharged prisoners. Mr. W. K. Howitfc, chairman of the relief committee of the Auckland Hos- ; pital Board, expressed his committee's appreciation of the assistance given by medical men and chemists in attending and supplying medicine to the sick poor. Ho also paid a tribute to the work of the Little Sisters of the Poor, who had accommodated niany old men whom the Hospital Board had been unable to care for at the infirmary. The two sections of the community who deserved every sympathy were the medically unfit men, whom the Unemployment Board threw back on the Hospital Board, and the elderly destitute women, who had not reached the age when they would be entitled to the old age pension.

On the motion of the Rev. W. Lawson Marsh, a motion expressing appreciation of the services rendered by the social organisations of all religious denominations, the medical profession, the Mayor, and the Hospital Board was carried, and citizens were urged to give increasing support to their activities.