SOUP KITCHEN HAS A MIXED RECEPTION IN INVERCARGILL

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6668, 23 July 1928, Page 6

SOUP KITCHEN HAS A MIXED RECEPTION IN INVERCARGILL

LABOUR PROPAGANDA A REAL NECESSITY*. Charitable Aid Board Voices Strong Protest Against Innovation. Per Press Association. , INVERCARGILL, Last Night. Saturday morning saw great activity at the Labour Hall wjicro preparations ■ were being made for the opening of # Invercargill's first soup kitchen ia ' order to give some relief to those feeling the pinch through unemployment.,.* One room presented tlio appearance of a largo drapery store, ttho Hour and walls being covered with ’clothing of every description, while, ip the kitchen ut. the rear .of the hall piles of broad, both in loaves and in slices, pots of jam, cases of apples, and sundry other goods were piled. . Two large copper boilers were filled with about sixteen gallons of soup, which was ladled out to about seventy persons, some forty of whom were children. v ) The establishment of the- soup kitchen was brought about by of Labour Hall, but according to the secretary of tho Southland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, there is no need whatever for it. • He hardly bo« lieves that there is one '.instance of a family in Invercargill . having to go hungry and states that any genuine / cases of distress are received by the Board when application is made. Ha considers that tho action' of those, ie» sponsible for tfc.o establishment of the. soup kitchen was quite unwarranted. , One prominent Invercargill businesi’ man states that the establishment « tho kitchen is purely Labour Party propaganda. j': J:-'.vi':’.(..f-'f ...