“GHASTLY ABUSE.”

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20273, 6 April 1934, Page 5

“GHASTLY ABUSE.”

Missiles Thrown at City Missioner. ATTACKS IN WELLINGTON. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, April 5. Three times during the past week, the Rev T. Fielden Taylor, the Church of England’s City Missioner in Wellington, has had stones thrown at him by men he has been compelled to turn away because the mission has long since reached the limit of its resources in providing meals and shelter. One caller hurled a stone at Mr Taylor as he stood at the front door of his residence. “Here you are. you ejaculated as Mr Taylor stepped inside and deflected the missile with the front door. “The abuse I have been getting showered on me lately has been ghastly,” said Mr Taylor, in an interview to-day. “Men simply don’t believe me when I say the Mission has got no money. The position at present is that we cannot carry on more than a month unless we get at least £SOO from somewhere. We owe the bank £IOOO, the biggest overdraft we have ever had and quite naturally, we cannot get a bigger. If the Mission is forced to close down, the men’s shelter will have to close also, and will leave an average of 300 men a day without a meal.”