RELIEF DEPOTSG

Evening Star, Issue 20998, 12 January 1932, Page 9

RELIEF DEPOTSG

TO TEE EDITOR. Sir —Why is it that the relief depots did not reopen after the holidays '( 1 have a big family, and since Christmas my husband has earned nine shillings. Were it not for getting bread from the Salvation Army every day when they have it, we would have been hungry many a time. Wo have had no meat since last Wednesday. I have three ' children badly in need of footwear, and X api in need of a pair of shoes myself. I would willingly go out to work, but no one will employ a woman with a baby in arms; besides, if the Society for the Protection of Women and Children heard of a mother leaving other small children it would say the children were better in a home. I would do washing, mending, and ironing at my home, but no one is eager to put that kind of work out. My children will need books with the commencement of school, and if I keep them from school because they have no footwear I shall have the truant officer after me. This is supposed to be “God’s Own Country,” but I think a more appropriate name is “The Country God Forgot. Maybe in the near future He will remember little old New Zealand, and finish the job by making things morft prosperous for the working class.—l am, etc., Mother of Six. January 14. .