PROPOSED NIGHT SHELTER.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20225, 1 May 1931, Page 13

PROPOSED NIGHT SHELTER.

TO THE KDITOa OF TUB PKESS. Sir, —Regarding the building in'Wal-. tbani, partly put into'-accommodation condition by the City Mission, the letter of Mr iievell in to-day's Press suggests that tho City Council was hasty in refusing the hoped-for permit. Since the refusal was unaccompanied by any counter-offer or eveu suggestion at a crisis of such hopeless magnitude and severity, it will strike she public that the Council is playing a Petruchio-cuni-Katherine comedy to amuse a town which can see nothing but tragedy in the affair. The word of the Rev. Otho Fitzgerald, the Rev. Percy Rcvell, and the tireless head officer of the Salvation Army will certainly be taken in preference to lighthearted histrionics from the Council's majority. As to the good people of Waltham, it- is to ho hoped they are as piously resolved to keep anti-social forces out.of their precincts as they are to shut the gates of pity on honest misfortune.—Yours, etc., • -. ■ ■ JESSIE MACKAY: Cashmere Hills, April SOth, 193 L