TEMPTATIONS OF POVERTY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9404, 31 December 1910, Page 7

TEMPTATIONS OF POVERTY.

Sir Ernest Shackleton, in opening a bazaar in aid of the building fund of the South London Police Court Mission and Boy's ShelteT Home, Camberwell Iload, said most, of those present had been brought up in fairly comfortable circumstances, and did not know what temptations came into the lives of the people in the streets. He had it brought home to him when he was down South (Antarctica), when he was almost starving. Hβ came to realise down there that there wae not much to choose between the educated and the uneducated man when it came to hard facts like starvation. The only thing he was surprised at was that there were not more starving people who fell into crime than was actually the case. He felt that anything that would help the youth or this "country when they were hard up was a good thing for the whole community. If the great middle classes were l 'popped down" into the streets it would be seen that there would be more cases in the police courts than now actually came there from the lower strata of life. ;