MISSIONER ABUSED

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 108, 6 April 1934, Page 12

MISSIONER ABUSED

WELLINGTON ORGANISATION’S PLIGHT. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, April 5. Three time during the past week, Rev. T. Fielden Taylor, the Church of England’s City Missioner, Wellington, has had stones thrown at him by men lie has been compelled to turn away because the mission lias long since reached the limits of its resources in providing meals and shelter. One caller hurled a stone at Mr Taylor as he stood at the front door of his residence. “Here you are, you . This will catch you,” the man ejaculated as Mr Taylor stepped inside and deflected the missile with the front door. “The abuse I have been getting showered on me lately has been ghastly,” said Mr Taylor in an interview today. “The men simply don’t believe me when I say the mission has got no money. The position at present is that we cannot carry on for more than a month unless we get at least £SOO from somewhere. We owe the bank £IOOO, the biggest overdraft we have ever had and quite naturally we cannot get a bigger one. If the mission is forced to close down, the men’s shelter will have to close also and this will leave an average of 300 men per day without a meal.”