TOO AWFUL FOR WORDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14507, 22 October 1910, Page 7

TOO AWFUL FOR WORDS.

E |S CO-OPERATIVE CAMPS. k MIWSIER'S Ji-U'E-RIENCES. s( aroh!ight ot the thoroughly thrown upon the lives of a*& °* h . co-operative camps by w en » *° c Cr uick* rta nk at the mission the .T> connection with the Anglican me et4Jifr 111 ~, As a worker in some Stood las* p j ' ms< 1 10 said ho thought he pretty ***•" had eee ° scii iu in the railway cam l* s P i ««« «»"<• very fine men ; u-nuld never characterise » .whole BJ«> " .of men bv one form. But. on =*»t; i,c had "ever seen lives so de°Z « ho fed seen in the back blocks Operative railway camps in New Zeaj It was too awful for words. Ho nviaced thai man could not. live °° ( Ae Gocl-givon blessing of poverty. tlt U -> { ], m > camps could knock out The m %< a day with* ease; there was I ° S ,° r to e top them drinking, for they "jLv could be sure of three meals a * &eW cd thev debased themselves in a way da,V> * trould never soe in the worst slums «sff tik - v lived in tents ioft by Seined 364* days a year, more or id they had absolutely no recreatheir long leisure hours, but to " ftn ,,i. (> lO thumbs.' One of them had !jd him that, to pass the time they had read the advertisements on the jam labels backwards. Almost anybody !!uld drink in those circumstances. It *° » scandal that those men should be to live such * life, without any njevisiou for their recreation. Ifhe had liaJ the money to do it, he would have f'aited a temperance cafe himself, and run it under Church auspices among the camps, and that would i.ave saved many a man. Continuing his remarks. Mr. Cruickshank tha-t many of the railway workers weie & scum of creation; but the greatest- diffi-, Jtv to and bis fellows had to contend with the sending of remittances from EngHe implored his hearers, if they #a'bad a black sheep in the family, not to let him become a remittance man. That was the biggest curse that could happen to a I an. One of the speakers friends had known a remittance mail who had an order, p3jahb to bearer for £1000, and he had had many before that. Jlr. Cruickshank said that there was great need, not only for more clergymen, but for lay workers to go into the back Hocks.