RELIEF FOR THE RETURNED.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4591, 17 May 1922, Page 2

RELIEF FOR THE RETURNED.

“Youn quotation is accurate ns well as apt,” says a Star subscriber, commenting upon our use. of the phrase, “They asked for bread, and they got a stone,” in regard to the national memorial for New Zealand heroes of the war. Our correspondent thinks the lesson might be applied nearer home: “Yes, even right here in Feilding.” And then -lie goes into details: “I believe Feilding has raised about £2200 for.its war memorial. Why not earmark tho odd £2OO towards erecting a Memorial Gateway at Kowhai Park, and dovote tho substantial £2OOO for the relief of indigent returned soldiers and their familios here in Feilding? Why waste the money on things in stone when tho men who fought and came back want broad?” Tho correspondent, who moves about amongst all sorts and conditions and classes of people residing in town, assures us that there are men out of work here who need practical help. We doubt whether the money subscribed—and its total is £I2G7, not £22oo—can be diverted, as suggested. But certainly tho men who are out of work and the families that are passing through hard-up times should mako their wants known individually, either to the Town Clerk, the Labour Department’s agent, or tho Patriotic Society (the latter for returned men), where wo feel sure they will get bread, and not stones.