Poignant Distress.
IBx Tblcqbaph.i I UNITBD PBSBB ABBOCIATION. | Napier, 28th August. Dean Hovell, in his address at the annual meeting of the Cathedral pariehioners, said : — Although I have been a resident in this country for nearly 20 years, and have been engaged during the whole of that time in ministerial work, I have never witnessed so much poverty and distress as have been brought under my notice during the past six months. It has been my painful lot to watch famished men eating ravenously on a number of occasions lately. For peoplo to be in actual want of food in a country like New Zealand, which carries a population at the present time of merely 700,000 sonls, betokens something radically wrong. The country will suffer humiliation and disgrace and loss if the matter is not attended to with a little greater care. For a person to be found lying dead of want and neglect behind an outhouse in New Zealand, while at the same time her preaohers proclaim tbe doctrine of a Gospel for the poor and her legislators over flow with eloquent Liberalism, awakens thoughts which are not conducive to repose.
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Evening Post, Volume XLVIII, Issue 51, 29 August 1894, Page 2
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192Poignant Distress. Evening Post, Volume XLVIII, Issue 51, 29 August 1894, Page 2
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