FAIR FOR CITY MISSION
Tim Wellington City Mission in £1500 iv debt, and in order to recoup tho funds a Daffodil Fair, which will be opened by Lady Bledisloe, will be held in the Town Hall from September 8 to September 15. The Key. T. Fielden Taylor, the city missioner, lias come in contact with numerous eases of genuine distress, and can quote many instances in which families have been unable even to get a sufficient supply of the barest necessities of life. The patience of the women under such circumstances, he states, is amazing. Daily women come who aro wretchedly undernourished, preferring to feed their children before themselves. Clothes are a tremendous difficulty, the relief workers being unable to buy them, and the clothes received by charitable institutions being. insufficient to meet the never-ending demand. Single men on eus;1 tenance, receiving 10a a week, have little left after paying for a room. lii Buch: circumstances, there is a drain on the City Mission, which has;gradually exceeded its income to the extent mentioned.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 55, 3 September 1934, Page 11
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173FAIR FOR CITY MISSION Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 55, 3 September 1934, Page 11
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