DISTRESS IN BRITAIN.
WORKMEN- BEGGING GOITERS. An “Otago Daily Times” reporter last Thursday interviewed Air. James Hazlet, who recently returned from Britain, with regard to distress among the poorer classes there. “It is heartrending,” Air. Hazlet said, “to walk about tho London streets and see tlie despair -ancl misery wbicn are- stalking there. Alere pale skeletons of what were once strong men will accost you on the pavement. You con sec that they arc genuine, honest workmen, willing enough to work could they but get it. They will tell you long stories of famine and privation, which to tlie ears of wellfed New Zealanders, sound -almost incredible. Tlie man is evidently -weak from want of food, and winds up by asking in a sliamed-face-d apologetic manner if you can spare him,a penny.” Air. Hazlet spoke strongly in favor of tlie appeal now being* made for funds to relieve the. distress in .Britain, as the result of unemployment.'
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2409, 26 January 1909, Page 5
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