POOR IN JAPAN.
“KEPT BY RICH RELATIONS.” Lady Burdctt, of New Zealand, who arrived in Sydney the other day after a holiday visit to the Far East; said that Japan had a good scheme in force to keep beggars and conjurers off the streets. “No begging is allowed,” she said, “because the rich people are compelled by law to keep all their poor relations. It is pretty hard on the rich who have big poor families to maintain, hut the scheme seems to be working fairly well. Although the scheme might he all right for the East, I could not imagine it being put into operation in Australia or New Zealand. Wealthy relations would leave for other lands in shiploads.” Lady Burdctt said that women in the East were getting more freedom and independence. They were gradually discarding their national dress for fashionable European clothing.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 286, 31 October 1934, Page 7
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