THE CAUSE OF CHARITY.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 29 November 1924, Page 5

THE CAUSE OF CHARITY.

HIGH GLASS POOR. A visitor to Sydney is impressed with the many organisations for kindness and charity which exist in that city. She had gathered the impression before baking up her residence in the Australian city that with , the outdoor life and tropical climate, and for other reasons, the people could be called, in the main, pleasure-loving, and she was not prepared to find such a. network of charitable aid societies. These reach out in all directions, and to: all classes, for the upper-class poor are not forgotten or neglected.. The writer is of opinion, that most of the well-off peopLe take a very fine part in assisting those who are not so fortunate in life, and she had noticed that the Jewish people were among those who were foremost in good works. In fact, there were not many leading people who are really “gentle-folk” who do not both spend and work in good causes. This means a good example to others, and they are followed by. a great host of others who have time, but less money to assist with, but who fill a useful part. The “Smith Family” has been mentioned before —just people who wish to help without their names being blazoned abroad; then there are the “Bricks,” another kindly association; the “Gum-Nut Girls/’ as well as the auxiliaries of the Red Cross, the hospital' guilds, and others too numerous to mention. The fine part of the stoi*y is that those who are perfectly comfortable and satisfied never forget that there is a big world outside, full of suffering, poverty, and sorrow, and continuously try to alleviate these ills, sparing neither monev nor effort.