POVERTY AND RENT

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15123, 14 October 1912, Page 10

POVERTY AND RENT

Rent in its connection with home life was referred to by two speakers at the annual meeting of the Society for the Protection of Women and Children, at Wellington on Wednesday. Archdeacon Harper said they found that the creche established in the city was used not only by women who lacked a husband's support, but also by others. When it became necessary for the wife to go outworking as well as the husband, when a man had to pay two or two and a-half days' wages for "the rent of the place that was dignified with the name of a home, they had to go clown below the surface for reasons. It had been found that the conditions he mentioned' existed, and that to make up, the rent, cither the- wife had to go to work or family life had to bo lessened by taking lodgers or by the overCrowding with wfticli those who worked among the poor were only too familiar. He thought the question of rent was at the bottom of the matter. Father Venning also remarked on the. connection of rent with home life. Often young people got married nowadays and went to live in rooms. That was one of the worst things that could happen to them. They got no real home life nor did their children, and in some instances the outcome of the matter was that the Society for the Protection of Women and Children had to deal with their cases.,