UNEMPLOYED.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 235, 4 October 1928, Page 6

UNEMPLOYED.

TRAGEDY- OF MIDDLE A 6& ■ ■ (To the Editor.) ~~W*I have frequently noticed remark* tj'-' 5 " daily papers inquiring "What is to haj!? with our boys?" What troubles ma - • "What can be done for the middle-aMI * elderly men who are out of will cite my own case. lam fifty of age with a home to support. ago I was in a fair financial positing. witk need to worry for the future. IhmliS* New Zealand over fifty years and doriSa! whole of my working life have practice to help others over the rttw t so a year ago, the result being that I - I possessed. I am well known and lent credentials. I cannot be rrenVi-l the Government service and sevenlidt!! institutions because of my age and ation schemes. I cannot obtain ""rStnT of any description. I am not able tagZu, manual labour. I do not drink or any shape or form. I claim that I mtsSS to build up our lovely Dominion, yet allowed to suffer. J have sold or pnnil«» most valued possessions to ""Hk *•' my way and live. I now possess ten shillings with nothing else to part How I am going to pay my next w£i • » chase food without going into -H prospect of paying I know not. TWs mH avenues of earning a living, but a litUs caafel is required to commence operations. I command any. Those that have the lsttv«fli not advance two or three hundred without security owing to f«if]| g nature havinp been destroyed by the atS «f sharpers. I have puzzled, prayed and Wu until I am sore, body and 6ouL I hen m three men during the past week in a Ek position to myself; men of undoubted Ml and integrity yet walking about with imm in their hearts. We meet, chat and each other, but only God knows the sbil. covered by our smiles. DESPAuL