“LIVING IN LUXURY”
AUSTRALIAN WORKERS ‘NO CAUSE FOR COMPLAINT 1 SYDNEY, Feb. 5. Preaching at St. John’s Church of England, Penshurst, last night, Canon A. H. Needham, chairman of the Australian Board of Missions, said that the Australian working people were living in luxury compared with people living in other countries. He had seen during his recent attendance at the world missionary conference at Madras, terrible conditions under which people were living in unhealthy and unchristian circumstances They had no doctors or hospitals. “They people in Australia should thank God,” lie said, “that they live in the beqt country in the world ” “Australians,” he said, “do not deserve such wonderful conditions any more than the Indian or Chinese people.”
Canon Needham said that it was shameful that Australian workers should complain of their living, wages, and conditions while native people existed in such poverty and desolation overseas.
“God loveth a cheerful giver,” he added, “and Australians can greatly assist missionary work by giving as much money as they can to these works.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19884, 10 March 1939, Page 2
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