WIDOWS AND ORPHANS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20028, 9 September 1930, Page 13

WIDOWS AND ORPHANS.

TO TUB EDITOB OF THE PRESB Sir. —I read that a wealthy citizen of Cliristchurch is being host to 400 orphans at the Postmen's Revuo. What a happy thought! Perhaps somo good samaritan will treat the widows, too. There are many widows in Cliristchurch who cannot afford rovucs. and never get to pictures. The war widow and. widow with small children is provided for: but the widow who is too old to work, and not ofcl enough to draw the pension has ft lean time. \\ hen I y good samaritan, I don t mean ono who takes the widow's portion with one hand and gives to the orphan with the other. I mean one who at heart generous and a giver. Th» this world's present troubles is seliis iness. To most people the joy of saanng is unknown, and meanness and ftreed predominate. It is not the rich are most charitable, but the P° orNurse Maude knows that. Very often a rich man's generous impulses are warped and side-tracked by those who

control and want his money for themselves, and tho spectacular generosity which they suggest, and allow hi m to indulge iii is of small monetary value, and is soon made up by- them by squeezing it out of some unfortunate person under their thumb. Let us hopo the Postmen's Revue will bring Nurse Maude a goodly snjn, for none knows, better than she how to distribute it to the best advantage.. 1 have a sneaking regard for tho postman-. He brings mo all my good news, and all my bad. and the only day his cheerv whittle is not heard is Sunday. A dull day indeed.—Yours, etc.,

A WIDOW'S FRIEND. September Bth, 1930.

TO THE EDITOR o£* THE PRESS. Sir, —Having read the letter of your correspondent on the ship Peeress 'and the date of arrival of the first passengers for Timaru, I may say that the ship StrathallaUj from London _ with emigrants, arrived at Lyttelton in the end of the year 1858 or early in 1859, an uncle of mine and his wite and family being among the number. I have frequently heard him say that they left the first passengers for Timaru, that had arrived direct from the Old Country. They were two families, one named Ward, whom I latter knew personally They came out under engagement to the Rhode# brothers.

it was said. The vessel lay a long way out, and the two families wero sent ashore in one #of the ship's boats. Strathallan street, Timaru, is named after tlio ship:—Yours, etc., MAORI, 1858. September Bth, 1930.