BEGGING LETTER WRITER

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 May 1935, Page 11

BEGGING LETTER WRITER

V DOVER SOLE FOR BREAKFAST

“Scientific beggars who know how much to ask and just how to get it, were referred to by Lord Rankeillour, speaking at the 66th annual meeting of the Charity Organisation Society, held in London recently.. The Marquess of Aberdeen was in the chair. Lord Rankeillour said that while in the House of Commons representing Central Sheffield he received a card from" a man who represented himself as a constituent. The man said he had been called to London to fill a post. On arrival he found that the post had been filled. All he wanted was his fare back to Sheffield. The annual report of the society states: “The begging-letter writer continues to supply the inquiry department with a.great deal of work. “The successful begging-letter writer reaps a rich harvest until eventually he’ oversteps the mark. One such writer, who on paper is always starving and in danger of eviction, has said that he usually manages to have Dover solo for his breakfast. His menu is being varied a little at the present “Much more alarming is the growth, of the bogus charity. The records show that some fifty-seven new societies started during the year have been closed down, but not until the police or other intervention has forced them to do so, and not until they had extracted substantial sums oi money from a charitable public ever read} to do a charitable work.”