CASES OF HARDSHIP

Evening Star, Issue 21318, 24 January 1933, Page 6

CASES OF HARDSHIP

THE MAYOR'S APPEAL To an ‘ Evening Star ’ reporter the mayor (Air R. S. Black) stated this morning that quite a number of people were anxious to go out gold mining, but that many of them needed assistance in getting to suitable fields and in procuring tents, picks, shovels, etc. He thought it might he possible for some committee in Dunedin to take an interest in this work, and initiate a movement for the _ purpose of collecting material for miners.

His Worship added that a very pathetic case had came under his notice yesterday. Two old-age pensioners, who had suffered from the reduction in their allowances, called on him to see if they could got a pick, shovel, dish, tent, and fly. One of thorn had been mining in Otago Central in the old days, and he asserted he could go back where he could find gold. Anyone who could help these old people would bo doing a good service. Another case was that of a plucky young man who had walked out to the Whare Flat camp with blankets and cooking utensils, but without food. Possibly there was somebody who could assist him with a week’s rations.

Another case that required attention concerned a wife whose husband had gone out into a country camp. The wife and four children—the eldest only seven—were left in need of mattresses and blankets. One delicate boy of three in this family urgently required shoes. Mr Black also mentioned that an old man who had been burnt out of his home in Castle street had lost everything. This was still another case requiring the attention of some kindly disposed person or persons.