THE PROBLEM OF POVERTY.
TO THE EDITOB. 'Sir, — When ± look back, as an old colonist is apt to do, I feel amazed at the Tapid advancement the world has made in the last threescore years and ten of my life. There were no railways, no gas, no electric light when I was bom; and yet all tihese have been brought to perfection and remain with us as blessings. But the problem of poverty still remains. "How is this?" one lady eaid to mo the other day; "remove the drink, and poverty vanishes." But it ls not so, and I gave her proof. Two old ladies, living in one room to save the rent, have been getting their living by plain sewing, and as they are always respectably dressed no one suspects the miserable state, they are in. One fell ill, the doctor was called in by the landlady, and it was then discovered for three days they had been without food, and they refuse to go to a poor house, so what is to be done? — 1 am, etc., FREDK. JAMES. Adelaide-road, Newtown.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 58, 6 September 1909, Page 3
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183THE PROBLEM OF POVERTY. Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 58, 6 September 1909, Page 3
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