MISSIONER’S OPINION

Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1931, Page 2

MISSIONER’S OPINION

OVER-CHARGING FOR, BREAD ALLEGED. (By Telegraph — Tress Association) AUCKLAND, March 2. “Four years’ experience at social work, during which time I have granted ovor 23,000 interviews to people seeking food, has convinced mo of the utter futility of organised charity as a means of feeding the multitude of unemployed,” said the Rev. C. G. Scrjmgeour, at the Alethodist Central Mission last evening. “The amount given away yearly in charity is simply staggering, and yet it is far eclipsed by the greater amount Frit js taken from people in overcharge for bread. Daylight robbery does not adequately describe this iniquitous process. It is robbery under cover of the statement, for the protection of the New Zealand wheatgrowers.’ Christ’s practical pijpiT was always working op tile problem of the people’s bread, and if He came to New Zealand to-day He would have some very hard things to say to those responsible for the exorbitant price people are compelled to pay for their principal article of diet." Mr Sorimgpour asked: “Are we then to go on in the same vicious circle while the Government grants favours to powerful vested interests by the way of protective tariffs, when in a critical period such as thp present pone should exj V ? Jf js not enough to accept the promise of the Prime Minis, ter that something will ho done a year hence, 11