AID TO PRISONERS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 June 1933, Page 3

AID TO PRISONERS

WOMEN’S SOCIETY’S GOOD.WORK. SPIRIT OF SELF-SACRIFICE. SYDNEY, Julie 8. Sneaking of Mothers’ Day, a leading citizen of Sydney recently, remarked that too many mothers were lauded after they had died. These thoughts rivere expressed after a group of city men had listened to a talk o,n the work of the Prisoners’ Aid Society. It •was disclosed by the secretary oi the society, that the unceasing interest and activity of kindly women was the chief factor contributing to its success. He 'was asked the reason for the great fall'iug off in the total number of woman Tb* s Gf-sacrificing labours of women were mentioned as the prim cjpul cruse. The Kindergarten Union spreads its influence in all the drab portions of the city, caring for infants, training their early thought along the debt line, and theeri’.ig their mothers. Bands of women support this work,, olid also visit the gaols, talking with the women -prisoners, sewing with them, 'helping to make garments for the littlo ones left in their homes, taking, the garments there, and mending on the spot. Others obtain work for released prisoners. A member of the Prisoners’ A'id Society took into her home one wl n had to wait for a job, and had no place to go to.