COAL AND BLANKET FUND.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 21 June 1924, Page 3

COAL AND BLANKET FUND.

| A WOMAN’S APPEAL. "Mother of Ten” writes: "Would you please allow me space in your valuable paper to make i i suggestion concerning the funds collected for Coal and Blankets. In P™ VI °“» years there lias not been enough discrimination concerning its distribution. In many cases those who need it have been passed over, and those who shouldn’t really get it, are the ones that benefit. Now, Sir, I ' voulc i to suggest that the various schools be visfed by some responsible people, to find out who are the really destitute children, and let them be provided with strong boots and stockings, and let the good ladies connected with it make flannel singlets, to keep the little bodies of the children v ann il the children are warmly clad it gnes the mother a chance to get somet.nng for herself, as she has to- make the sacrifice, when the .children are wantin o- When there is coal given, it is generally the father,- who sits m front of the fire, the children are sent off to bed, and when there are given, it is usually on fatliei s bed they go.