MUCH DISTRESS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17182, 12 February 1930, Page 13

MUCH DISTRESS

W.A. WHEAT BELT PERTH, W.A., Jan. 28. There is much distress hi pari of our wheal belt. Many settlers arc head over heels in debt, have scarcely enough food lo eai, haw to travel many miles each week to secure enough water merely for the house, and, goutually speaking, have few rav.s of hope in l heir lives. They have gambled I heir all against the season and Just. The distress is chiefly in the Bullfinch district, to which, as a consequence oi' one or two exceptional winters out of a score, numbers of persons wen; attracted two or three years ago. Elsewhere in the hell most, people have been able to gel through without much difiieulty, from the statement pni forward by ilie.se rlistressed settlers il would appear that thev are in n worse plight than has generally been supposed, worse even than some of the unemployed, who have been able to gel al least one good meal a day from the soup kitchens in Perth. They propose to unite as a body, make I heir way to the city, and march through the streets. They alone know what they hope to achieve by such a demonstration, but they evidently believe flint once they get the public interest aroused in their behalf the Government will be ready to set them on their feet again.