CHARITABLE AID.
Dk. Macrgegor is to be commended for the vigorous and forceful manner in -which he has alluded to the spurious sentiinentalism that underlies the distribution of Charitable Aid in this colony. What could be more spirited than the following:—" We are so given over to weak sentimentalism in New Zealand in all that relates tc the problem of poverty that probably we shall have to be taught by hard experience before any Government can be expected to grasp this nettle. The time, however, cannot be far off when we must have a rude awakening from our dreams of a short cut to Utopia. To point the moral: I know of a ' defective ' half-imbecile girl who has already had five illegitimate children by different fathers, all of whom are now being supported by the Charitable Aid Board, while, of course, the mother is maintained, and encouraged to propagate more. . . . All over New Zealand the State subsidy for indiscriminate outdoor relief is the most effective scheme that could be devised for the systematic cultivation of social parasites."
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Hastings Standard, Issue 451, 15 October 1897, Page 2
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177CHARITABLE AID. Hastings Standard, Issue 451, 15 October 1897, Page 2
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