RELIEF IN A BIG WAY
New Zealand cities still are engaged in distress relief, but their problems are small compared with those of a city like San Francisco, where the increase for December last year over December, 1937, was 18 per cent. Details of tire civic activities have been received by the Mayor of Christchurch (Mr R. M. Macfarlane) in the form of the annual message of Mayor Angelo J. Rossi to the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco. “ San Francisco is a humane city,” Mayor Rossi writes, “ and not one of our fellow citizens has at any time been denied the necessities of life. In relief distribution the total number of people involved in such sections as indigent relief, old age and blind aid, half orphan aid, plus those on W.P.A., and S.R.A. was 55,464 on December 1 last.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23796, 1 May 1939, Page 13
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