Hard Times.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume X, Issue 12, 1 May 1920, Page 4

Hard Times.

■■■~"> "■■'..■ : - „;'CTp--.tlie..ißait6r).-'"; .' ';.'..' : : J : -' : '" Sir,-— LasKmonth the Rev. F. B. Redgrave made an appeal m your columns for children 's clothes. There is no ' doubt that this winter is going to be a very hard 1 one for many, with the high prices for rent/ food and clothing. Facts should be known, and especially to those j who . want their Christian religion to be real, which implies:. "Love to., the brethren." v >" .;. This afternoon I came; across : a typical case rr in this parish ; it was a . mother witfi four young children, whose husband earns £3 6s, a week as a carter (11s a day with no halfhbliday). Out of this he has to, pay 22s 6d a week rent fdr a small House. Will any reader manage to feed , si^ people and clothe, them at the present time on £2 35 ,: 6d a ;, week. I knptr. the mother, with true maternariselfsacrifice,- often goes . short of f<k>d herself. v . . There are plenty of similar cases everywhere. I could mention dozens of worse^ones here m Napier. Sometimes the man is trying "to pay. off a mortgage on tine home; , it probably means he will have vto iorifeit. \ ■ , And yet there is plenty of wealth m the country*" Don 't let us invite Bolshevism to our shores. lam not begging. Most: of these people would not accept charity .-^lamV etc., ' ' •• ; : ERIC D. RICE; St. Augustine's^ Napier. ..