PLENTY OF MEAT

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 105, 30 October 1931, Page 9

PLENTY OF MEAT

BUT LITTLE ELSE

MAYOR'S ' DEPOT --NEEDS SUPPLIES

Though it was anticipated that theie would be a lifting of the horizon for many workers through the opening of _ seasonal occupations with the advent of the spring, iuquiiic3 at the Mayor^'s_ Relief Depot in Di.xo'n street show that" the position is as bad as in midwinter, if not actually worse. The rails for assistance in the Shape""of-* food have increased instead of diminishing, and llieie sup pe'oplo cohtinu- "- illy coming m who have jicvei. visited tho depot bcfoie. Contributors havr> _ not kept up then, donations *ii well as a month ago, peilups because- they themselves aie feeling tho pinch, but, whate\ei the cause, there aio moat pathetic instances of calls for aid thpt have had to be ignoied because tho supplies weio not available foi distribution Theie was tho recent case ct a woman with eight children, the eld» est of whom was eleven, one- A recent - aruval, who sent one of the children round becauso sho was unable- to. coma herself. Veiy little could be done bcrcause the food was not there to send.

The depot has plenty o£ meat, but meat alone is not enough to make "a meal, and there is a gicat shortage of bread, potatoes, vegetables, and groceries. Bread has been short owing to the holiday, and there were days when it could not bo bought. It ha*, been, one of the hardest weeks for those in the- depot, having to refuse so T)ianjt people then simple ■wants. The cutting ~ down of the time on the lehef works, though it lepiesented only a few shillings to each woikci, meant that those who have -just been able to carry on. and buy then own provisions have no\r to iclv on the depot oi go without j This has meant an increase in the* " numbers requiring assistance during a. week when supplies have been, unusually shoit. Groceries arc in short supply also. ' . Contributors who arc in a position to" do so are asked to foiward what they •can, as the supply at present in quit* inadequate to the demand.