APPEAL FOR FUNDS.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 229, 27 September 1929, Page 7

APPEAL FOR FUNDS.

PROTECTION SOCIETY'S CALL. STREET COLLECTION HELD. To enable it to carry on important work that it intends to undertake, the New Zealand Society for the Protection of Women and Children is making a street appeal to-day. The unobtrusive manner in which the society carries on its activities leaves the public more or less unconscious of its splendid work. Little has been heard of what it has done for the regrettable and alarming number of young girls who have been found homeless, in providing homes and helping them to find employment. Neither are the society's efforts at reconciliations when breaches occur between husband and wife widelv known.

The society is represented at sittings of the Children's Court and is often responsible for the reformation of youthful wrongdoers. Help for various unfortunates is one of the society's principal tasks and its cases cover sons who have failed to support aged parents, wives and children who have been deserted or neglected, and children a who have been cruelly treated.

The urgency of a generous response to the society's appeal by the public is stressed by the fact that it is maintained chiefly by voluntary contributions.