DISTRESS IN CITY

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 104, 30 October 1933, Page 11

DISTRESS IN CITY

SALVATION ARMY APPEAL

The street appeal being made by the Salvation Army tomorrow may be safely contributed to by everyone without a doubt regarding the useful expenditure of the money collected. That distress exists everyone knows, but the extent of the .disheartening circumstances of many of the unemployed, or partially employed, section of the community is known only to those who play the Good Samaritan and enter the rooms of the poor. The work of the Army consists largely, in looking after people whom others are all too likely to forget, and its moral in-! fluence has done much to induce many dispirited families to continue the unequal struggle. But it is the practical side of relief that is aimed at in tomorrow's appeal. Fruit, cake, vegetables, jam, etc., are needed for .i he street stalls, and those able to contribute in this way are asked to leave their donations at the Army's headquarters. Owing to the increased demands ■upon it, the Army has extended its activities during the past year, at a time when funds came less readily to its hands than at any other period in its New Zealand history, and the gift of clothes, bedding, footwear, and food will be doubly welcomed now. Actual instances of hardship, more of them than would be believed by those who are comfortably off themselves, can be given by Afmy officers.