CORRESPONDENCE.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 527, 18 December 1912, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

The Editor. Sir, —Will you do me the favour of again allowing ms to make an appeal to your readers in connection with my Christmas work amongst the poor, the friendless, and the afflicted in our beautiful and prosperous city. The poor we have always with us, and cheer which we give to them will add considerably to our own happiness and to the measure of Christmas spirit which is a good asset in this materialistic age. Some whom I desire to help need medical comforts and delicacies to help restore health with which to fight'bravely life's battle. For some such women whom I especially remember 1912 has been a year of toil, anxiety, and hardship, and its close is ' menaced with the crowning trouble of tfroken health. They are depending upon me, and 1 must not fail them, ttthers contemplate the Christmas reason with anything but satisfaction, for it produces so much of happiness for others which will only emphasise the dullness of their prospects. These have a dormant capacity for happiness, the revival of which would make the world better. Again, there are the children, God bless them! Unless some of your readers respond Santa Claus will pass some of them by, and the happy day will be turned to bitterness, for their lives as well as their stockings will be empty. Will those who can assist please communicate promptly with the treasurer of our Benevolent Fund, Mr H. E. Pacey, care of the New Zealand Dairy Association, Wellesley street, or with SISTER KENNETH, Auckland Methodist Mission, with which ia incorporated the Helping Hand Mission. Rose Road, Grey Lynn, Auckland. The Editor.

Sir, —A letter appeared in your paper of the 4th signed by J. Armstrong, of Maihiihi. What position Mr Armstrong holds in the Pukemapu Association I do not know, but as far as him being the chairman of the Maihiihi Association we settlers looked on it more as a joke than anything else. I maintain he has made an unwarranted attack oh Mr S. D. Chiles. I have lived in the settlement for threa years and know how much time Mr Chiles has put in as secretary, and what ill-afforded money he has spent for the welfare of the district. I challenge Mr Armstrong, through the columns of the press to show where he has ever done any good for the settlement, and ?,lso challenge to let me publish the amount of harm he has done. I maintain he should be one of the last of the settlers to take a leading hand to upset the good work that has been done. —I am, etc , ANOTHER MEMBER, Maihiihi Settlers' Association.