OVERLAPPING CHARITY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21470, 19 April 1933, Page 12

OVERLAPPING CHARITY

A COUNTRY CASE COMMITTEE'S RESOLUTION An example of the way in which some people seek charitable relief in all possible quarters at the same time was offered to the Metropolitan Relief Committee yesterday. A city social organisation forwarded a. pathetic letter from a woman in a country township, asking for a pair of boots for her husband, who, she said, was working barefoot in a relief camp. She added that she hud eight young children. Another social woiker, who was present, said he knew tho case well. The woman's husband had been in cam]) for only a few weeks, and before that had been for years on a steady wage of I;.") a week. Church people in the township reported that they had assisted tho family upon a most generous scale and full provision had been made for the wife, even to the engagement of a doctor. In spite of this, an appeal for help had recently been received by yet another charitable organisation in Auckland. which had made an appeal without inquiry and money had been subscribed and sent to the family. The committee decided to ask those concerned to make no further appeals on behalf of relief workers or their families without prior reference to the committee.