Accommodation for Homeless Men
Sir —For some time we have been much’concerned regarding our accommodation for unemployed and homeless men. Each of our men’s institutions has been overcrowded for quite a lengthy period, and the position is now very acute. We shudder to think of men not having adequate sleeping accommodation on nb'hts such as these. Lt.-Commissioner Adams is now inspecting our home at Miramar with a view to extension and will probably have to erect a dormitorj, but this, of course, will take time. At the Workmen’s Home, Buckle Street, there seems to be no means of extension, and therefore we would appreciate your readers’ assistance in locating a suitable building to help solve our probit the present at Miramar and Buckle Street we are housing approximately lol) men per night, and yesterday in the Buckle Street and Miramar institutions we supplied no less than 420 meals. . We must find a means of meeting tile need of these men, especially during the winter. We are doing our best, but are really hampered by not having sufficient room.-I am l( ete., KGE q Men’s Social Secretary., Salvation Army, Wellington, July lo
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 249, 17 July 1937, Page 13
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