PEOPLE’S BREAD

Patea Mail, Volume LII, 4 March 1931, Page 2

PEOPLE’S BREAD

HIGH PRICE AND CAUSE. IP CHRIST CAME. Comment on the effect oi. the wheat duty on the price of bread was made ;,y (ho Rev. C. G. Scrimgeour at the Methodist Central Mission on Sunday evening. “Four years’ experience at social work, during which time 1 have granted over 23,000 interviews to people seeking food, has convinced me of the titter futility of organised charity as a means of feeding the multitude of unemployed.” said MT. ScrimgeouT. “The amount given away yearly in charity is simply staggering, and yet it is fur eclipsed by the greater amount that is taken from people in an overcharge for bread. Daylight robbery docs not adequately describe this iniquitous process. It is robbery under cover of a statement ‘for the protection of New Zealand wheat-growers.’ Christ’s practical mind was always working on the problem of the people’s broad, and if He came to New Zealand to-day He would have some very hard things to say to those responsible for the exorbitant price people arc compelled to pay for their principal article of diet.”