DISTRESS IN IRELAND

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 3 February 1925, Page 5

DISTRESS IN IRELAND

AN APPEAL FOR HELP. (To the Editor, Daily Advertiser). Sir, —I noticed in your paper that there is great distress among the peasants of Ireland and on the authority of Mr T. M. Healy (Governor General of Ireland) it is the worst since the black ’47 when in three years the population of Ireland decreased over four millions. I would beg to call the attention of the liberal and charitable people of New Zealand that when there is distress in other countries we are always foremost in assisting them in a practical way, let it be Russia, China, or Japan, or our late enemy the Germans. Our Government is also most generous in contributing to those charities, from the public purse. Surely it would be only reasonable if we were to bold out a helping hand to our own people in their hour of need, especially when it is through no fault of theirs, as it is owing to a wet season and a total failure of the potato crops. As your liberal columns are always open to anything charitable, I hope you will assist in trying to get your readers to realise how essential it is to help those people before it is too late, and through your assistance I hope there will be committees got together with the object of raising funds.- —I am, etc., M. J. CORRIGAN. Mill Road, Waimate. February 2.