FIELDEN TAYLOR'S DAFFODIL FAIR
The Daffodil Fair is being held in the Town Hall at the end of next week because the finance of the Wellington City Mission is in a desperate state and because even though this is so the mission finds itself faced with the demand to meet cases of real and deserving need every day. ■ The Rev. T. Fielden Taylor is faced every day. with doing what he can to help relief workers who cannot earn enough to meet the bare necessities of life, and can quote many cases in which the available margin left after, the payment of rent is merely a few shillings a week. Those who have a. little to spare have here full opportunity to share what they can. It ia bad . enough to meet cases of need, it is worse to know that the need cannot be met. " . ■
A great deal is made out of the undeserving poor and out of" the assumption that, some men do not want work. There ia a.measure of truth behind these statements, .says Mr. Taylor, but it U not the whole truth. There are people who are poor because of economic circumstances over which they have no control and through no fault of their own. Because of the existenceof a great many such cases, Mr. Taylor is anxiously apr pealing to the public to give their best support .to the Daffodil Fair,
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 58, 6 September 1934, Page 4
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236FIELDEN TAYLOR'S DAFFODIL FAIR Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 58, 6 September 1934, Page 4
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