"WHY IS THERE SO MUCH POVERTY?"

Colonist, Volume LXII, Issue 15244, 4 December 1919, Page 2

"WHY IS THERE SO MUCH POVERTY?"

"Despite all efforts to help the poor by granting large sums in charitable aid, and in'endeavouring to ■ alleviate the distress of those in want of assistance, there is no doubt that a great deal of poverty still exists. 'lliere must bo a wicler distribution of wealth. It has often 'been asked: 'Yvhj iz there so much poverty J" I know that some people say that drink and extravagance are factors. But we must 'eiideavour to ascertain tne deeper causes underlying it ail. Tins is one ol the problems which press for solution, ami i. believe will soon be solved."—i)r Newman at Kilbirnie.