REV. T. FIELDEN TAYLOR.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12615, 6 April 1934, Page 5

REV. T. FIELDEN TAYLOR.

ABUSE AND STONES.

COMPELLED TO TURN MEN AWAY.

Electric Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, Last Night. Three times during the past week, Her. T. Fielden Taylor, the Church of England’s City Missioner, Wellington, has had stones thrown at him by men he has been compelled 1 to turn away because the mission has long since reached the limits of its resources in providing, meals and it f shelter. One caller hurled a stone at Mr Taylor as he stood at the front door of his residence. “Here you are, you . This will catch you,” the man ejaculated as Mr Taylor ..stepped inside and deflected the missile with the front door. “The abuse I have been getting showered on me lately has been ghastly,’ 9 said Mr Taylor in an interview to-day “The men simply don’t believe me when I say the mission has got no money. The position at present is that we cannot carry on for mare than a month unless we get at least £SOO from somewhere. We owe the bank £IOOO, the biggest. overdraft jwe have ever had, and quite naturally we cannot get a bigger one. If the mission is forced to close down, the men’s shelter will have to close also and this will leave an average of 300 men per day without a meal.”