PATIENTS AND PRISONERS’ AID SOCIETY.

Evening Star, Issue 18648, 31 May 1924, Page 8

PATIENTS AND PRISONERS’ AID SOCI ETY.

TO VUE EDI Ton.

Sir, —In past, years you have been kind enough to allow me to make an appeal mi behaff of the Patients and Prisoners' Aid Society for funds to carry on its most important and bcneficicnt work in this city and district, for which my committee is most grateful both to you and these who subscribe to the appeal. At the present time 1 am at a complete standstill on account of the fact that the cash box is quite empty, and tbo appeals are more numerous. It is, sir, more than sad to turn away a worthy person who conics for help, and yon are not able to give anything. To be quite frank, lasi month I was unable, to draw any charily from the treasurer because the bank account was well overdrawn to the extent of .some hundreds of pounds. This, combined witli indifferent health, has made my position a serious one.

The dames Powell Rest Home is doing; magnificent, work in the way of giving: women and children who are broken down I in health a first-class chance to recuperate. | Tliis institution deserves well from all | who are of a philanthropic mind. The I sick arc helped and visited, while the! needs of wives and children of those who axe in prison are not forgotten. 1 have

no hesitation in stating that the utmost rare is taken in dispensing charity, so in tins respect the public need haw. no fear. 1 have had to turn the needy away unhelped, and this is the most cruel part of my work. Remembering as I do that hunger and cold moans sickness and tipiihle. I ask the people of this city and Otago generally who are able to help to do so. ami do it quickly. The society's agent, will call upon the people as far as hr- can, hut to call upon all is an impossibility. do pieaso send your gifts at once,

The society really needs the practical help of the community at this time to do Its* work, ami to do it satisfactorily, so that whatever comes in as a result of this appeal will go a long way to lilt, to :.omo extont. the burden of sorrow, Fullering, and want, that is in our midst. Donations will he acknowledged through the Press as well as by the society's receipt. I therefore rely upon lie; people giving lihorallv, amt thus helping many who are wears and broken in spirit.—l am, etc., I l '. (1. (.h'MMIVG, ikmcrai di.Tirlary. 250 King street. Dunedin.