CHILDREN’S HOME

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 79, 14 March 1936, Page 4

CHILDREN’S HOME

Why Appeal is Necessary When the annual appeal is made to the public for the wherewithal to support the Hawke’s Bay Children’s Homes, there are many special circumstances that come to mind when help would not have been able to be rendered unless the homes were m existence. The house committee of the homes met yesterday and transacted much business, to be confronted at the end with the request from a distracted mother of five children who was ordered into hospital and had no-ouo to whom she could consign the children and no money to pay anyone to look after them. Even homes have their limit in accommodation, and though the Children’s Homes have elastic sides, still it had just been decided that they could not be stretched further when this urgent request was put forward. “Well, what shall we do, ladies?” asked the chairman. “They will have to be tucked in somewhere. That mother will never get well if she is worrying about her bairns all the time ” And so it was decided that one will be popped into Randall House and two will need to go the Junior Home, and thb two elder chidren will mind father at home. And again everyone smiled as they realised that again they had been able to fulfil their mission of helping little children in distress. It is to carry on this work that the Hastings committee is appealing for funds next Saturday, so please, everyone, give to the stalls of “Paddy’s Market” in Market street and then come and buy all the things back again.