DESTITUTE PEOPLE IN AUSTRALIA
OBSERVATIONS OF DR. rW. B. SUTCH
[THE PUIS gpectol Service]
AUCKLAND, September 19.
"After making allowances for the greater population, there are noticeably more destitute people in Australia than in New Zealand," said Dr. W. B. Sutch, of Wellington, on his arrival by the Monterey from Sydney. He. added that, apart from the numbers of men in Sydney and elsewhere who ostensibly sold bootlaces on the streets, he. was asked by young men for; the price of • meal.
Dr. Sutch was a Wellington delegate to the British Commonwealth Relations Conference in New South 1 Wales. Delegates were taken for several drives, and it was on one of these drives, he said, that he passed hundreds of shacks made of'sacking and flattened kerosene tins. "To call them shacks is to politely describe them," Dr. Sutch continued. "On the road between Sydney and Port Kembla, on the sandhills north of the port, and in several other places, -whole families live in these habitations. It was a very depressing sight."
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22511, 20 September 1938, Page 8
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