HOMES FOR CHILDREN
gj r> —Hay I thank the Mayor of Christchurch. ilr. Macfarlatie, for his reply to questions asked by Mr. Fisher. There is far too much being said about slum children coming to New Zealand. The same slum children have fathers and brothers fighting and giving their lives for us. It would be a sorry day for all if when joining the forces they were burned down because they were born in the slums. _ . Nobody wants to live in slums. It is just fate for one child to bo born of poor but hard-working parents, while another at the same hour is born in a home with' every comfort. When the children arrive I am sure the people who have offered homes to the little ones will give them love and care and help them to forget the nightmare they have passed through. The very few who are so afraid of getting a child from the slums should not be allowed a little one, for there would not be happiness in a homo where "my little girl or boy is better than you." These little people will be grateful for a home where a welcome and love and happiness lives of which I am sure there are plenty. Onehunga. N: Denvers.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23699, 4 July 1940, Page 12
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