APPEAL FROM CITY MISSION

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 121, 24 May 1941, Page 8

APPEAL FROM CITY MISSION

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—On Thursday next, May 29, the Wellington City Mission has been granted a street collection day. There have been so many street days that some people may say that too much is asked of them, and yet we would request a little remembrance and generosity for the City Mission.

We strive, regardless of creed, to help the hopeless, to lighten the load of the-heavy-hearted, to bring a measure of happiness to numbers of forgotten people who are stumbling through life, uncared for and forgotten. The mission provides a hot dinner every clay for nearly one hundred old age pensioners for the charge of a few pence. The mission provides full board and lodging for nearly fifty boys who —until they earn—pay nothing at all. In the wide fields of human work and human endeavour there is so much self-interest, so much self-seeking, and so much selfishness, that .the shining sword of something done for somebody for no payment and for no price, surely merits your keen appreciation and your support. The work of those in charge of the mission lies in the police courts, at the prisons, amongst the wretched and the homeless, amongst the drunkards and the derelict—in the great field of human unhappiness in this city. The indebtedness incurred by the cost of building the Fielden Taylor Boys' Hostel in Taranaki Street has left us with an overdraft of nearly £3000 —and we solicit your interest and your help. On behalf of the Board of Trustees of the Wellington City Mission, I wish to thank those who help us most gratefully and sincerely, and to assure them that their gifts will be expended wisely and economically in directly helping those who so urgently need it.—l am, etc D. S. HANCOX, Hon. Sec. to the Board of Trustees, Wellington City Mission.