THE POOR.
(To the Editor.)' Sir, —On reading an account in an Auckland paper of distress and hardship now existing in Auckland, my thoughts drifted to bachelors and thence to married-couples not blest with God’s best gift (children). Truly we (who claim to belong to those known as Christians) are far from what true Christians should be when we calmly look on and see these deaf children hungry, and .insufficiently clad and do nothing. A tax on bachelors and childless couples must come. There. are large numbers of these persons living in comfort, and even luxury, and such a tax would inmost cases be gladly paid I am sure. Nothing ’can be done in the way of a tax until the usual Act of Parliament is passed. In the meantime, perhaps, Mr Editor, you would receive donations and hand them to Sister Esther who knows where the genuine cases are.—l, am, etc., SYMPATHY. (We are prepared to do as suggested. —Editor, Times.)
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Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 658, 12 August 1921, Page 3
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162THE POOR. Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 658, 12 August 1921, Page 3
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