HOME OF COMPASSION

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 133, 2 December 1929, Page 5

HOME OF COMPASSION

The month allocated by the City Council i'or the street day appeal on behalf of the Home of Compassion, Island Bay, is January next, and a meeting to make the necessary preparations will be held next Wednesday afternoon at No. 1 committee room of the Town Hall, at 3.30. All sympathisers in the charitable work carried out by the Sisters of Compassion are cordially invited to attend. The work commenced by the late Eev. Mother Aubert and continued by her successors is well known to the public of Wellington, who have at all times when any appeal has been made showed their practical sympathy by giving such appeals wholehearted support. To carry out their very laudable work the Sisters of Compassion have no fixed annual income; they depend entirely upon the generosity of the public. At the present time, in order to provide further scope for their activities, another block of buildings, the foundation-stone of which was recently laid by His Excellency the Governor-General, Sir Charles Fergusson, is being erected. The cost of this block of buildings will be over £20,000, and all of the financial assistance that can be possibly given is necessary to enable the sisters to face the liability which they have been forced to shoulder in order to develop what is now a most necessary work. The street day appeal will therefore be an opportunity for the public to assist in carrying on the late Mother Aubert's great work. •