MENDICANCY IN SYDNEY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17916, 21 October 1932, Page 3

MENDICANCY IN SYDNEY

RECENT GREAT GROWTH SYDNEY, Oct. 2, A well-known lawyer has returned from New Zealand to Sydney,painting a glowing picture of the absence of beggars in the. streets of the Dominion. Sydney is fast becoming known throughout the world as a city of mendicants, despite the fact that ,compared .with other, cities in the world more official charity is handed out than can be found anywhere. The lawyer did not seok to examine the cause. He might have discovered it had he. searched the files of the newspapers. Not many years ago one newspaper announced in its news columns, “Two Sydneysiders passed through. Gumtnwn yesterday. So far nothing has been reported as missing.” The Sydney Rescue Society is scathing in its annual report. “Governmental allowances and unorganised private benevolence have fastened upon tho community an army of mendicants willing ta live upon the dole and such other allowances as can be secured.” One. of the greatest difficulties 1 lie* get-back-to-work campaign is meeting with is tho reluctance with which hundreds of people who have been doing very -well without work tackle their jobs. It will be years before Sydney sees the last beggar oil tho streets. Perhaps lie lias come as a permanent institution.