IN CHARITY’S CAUSE.
In connection with any combined scheme which may be adopted in Masterton to assist the poor, the investigation of cases should be placed in the hands of persons of tact, and care should be taken to see that people the members of a committee are asked to visit are really in need of assistance. The experience of some Masterton ladies who have been handed the names of “deserving” cases of poverty has been such that they have wondered whether a joke Avas being played upon them, some of those whom they were asked to visit being found, on enquiry, to be in such circumstances that they do not need any assistance, the husband or wife being in steady work. “Workhouse methods” should be avoided in giving assistance to deserving eases, because even a genuinely poor person has a certain amount of pride and will naturally resent impertinent and irrelevant cross-ques-tioning. The closest of investigation should be made into a case of poverty before any course of action is taken. Even Masterton is not free from those who are prepared to trade on the sympathy of the charitably inclined.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 20 June 1931, Page 4
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191IN CHARITY’S CAUSE. Wairarapa Daily Times, 20 June 1931, Page 4
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