STARVING STRIKE CHILDREN

Southland Times, Issue 17010, 6 April 1912, Page 6

STARVING STRIKE CHILDREN

APPEAL FOR AID. APF A L LIN GNE CE S SIT Y. One of the most heartrending features of the coal-miners’ strike in Britain is tiie suffering entailed on women and children. Thousands are lying in bed, or on rags they call bed, because they have no clothing. Thousands are starving for want of bread, and some mothers have been driven in their desperation to dog flesh. The death rate among children is rising horribly, for the cause is nothing but hunger. The funds of tiie trades unions are running out, and the charitable funds raised by municipalities and churches are quite inadequate to cope witli tiie distress. There is urgent need of money. Some of the Australian Governments have, cabled substantial sums and the Government of New Zealand must consider the same question. Meantime all the money that can he obtained can be used. A few pounds may mean the saving of more than one human life. Funds have been opened in Dunedin and Wellington and Invercargill ought to do something. We shall be glad to receive and acknowledge all subscriptions. The following amounts have come to hand; —

MONEY RECEIVED AT HOME. LONDON, April 5. Received April 6. 1.50 a.m. Sir Wm. Hall-Jones has received £1196 chiefly from Otago, to be distributed amongst women and children who arc suffering through the strike. The money will be spent in Cardiff, Middlesborough, Stockton, Grlmsbyi Stoke, Chesterfield, Leeds and in other centres where there is distress.

£ s. d. Amount already acknowledged . • 15T 10 0% Australian .. .. 0 5 0 Power House .. 1 In 0 Dipton Mill .. .. 0 7 6 Staff Girls’ High Shool 2 0 0 Pupils Gils’ High School R 14 3 Mr F. W. Bicknell .. 1 1 0 £169 12 9%