SUSTENANCE AND WASTE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVXIII, Issue 53, 4 March 1937, Page 27

SUSTENANCE AND WASTE.

I know of "sustenance" men, who have plenty of room for vegetables on their own premises, but why work to grow vegetables, even when vow can get them •for nothing from the* social workers' quarters? lam amazed at the lack of discernment of some such quarters; they are only helping to make parasites. If I were engaged in such quarters I would make it a condition that all applicants for help should have their premises inspected and send the lazy ones home to grow their own Vegetables and help to save them from their own destruction of manhood. I know personally of some of the wasted bread, etc., of those who get free bread and goods. I have seen big slices of good bread and meat thrown out on our city roads by some such wasters, who posed, too, as Christians. Ivex my righteous soul daily, but what can one do. I do hope that the social workers will wake up and do as I suggest. Certainly the wage-earners who give their "levies" to help to feed these people would be horrified to see what their help amounts to when given to the wrong people — though a boon to the righteous. I know there are still many honourable men living on sustenance, not abusing it or losing character by it, but devoting their time to work at home or to help or uplift mankind spiritually. But I am writing to see that all men under 50 years be given some work to earn it, even if it is only cutting grass in cemeteries, about which we hear so much, and that they seek to live on it, even sparingly, instead of exploiting social workers and being harmed instead of helped. A CHRISTIAN WOMAN*.