SEEKING CHARITABLE AID

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 224, 20 April 1933, Page 3

SEEKING CHARITABLE AID

Relief Workers Imposed Upon

An example of the way in which some people seek charitable relief in all possible quarters at the same time was offered to the Auckland Metropolitan Relief Committee.

A city social organisation forwarded a pathetic letter from a woman in a country township, asking for a pair of boots for her husband, who, she said, was working barefoot in a relief camp. She added that she had eight young children.

Another social worker, who was present, said he knew the case well. The woman’s husband had been in camp for only a few weeks, and before that had been for years on a steady wage of £5 a week. Church people in the township reported that they had assisted the family upon a most generous scale and full provision had been made for the wife, even to the engagement of a doctor.

In spite of this, an appeal for help had recently been received by yet another charitable organisation in Auckland, which had made an appeal without inquiry and money had been subscribed and sent to the family. The committee decided to ask those concerned to make no further appeals on behalf of relief workers or their families without prior reference to the committee.