POVERTY AS A LIVELIHOOD.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8760, 11 March 1907, Page 1

POVERTY AS A LIVELIHOOD.

The Bishop of Stepney told a remakable story roceutly at tho annual moetig of the East London Association of Frieudy Workers among the Poor, tho work of which, he said, would prevent the over-lapping of charity. He recalled tho case of an old woman who attended five mothers’ metings, and devoted herself with zeal to the getting of tickets and the provisions supplied by the tickets. Finding her digestion impaired by having attended five consecutive tea meetings, she was obliged to take a, little cordial at the public house. She died , and it was found that her death was duo to over-eating. When her homo was examined coals wore found in every corner, grocery tickets innumerable, £5 in cash, and a bank book showing deposits amounting to £sl. All her life that woman had been maintaining herself in this way, because fro organisers of tho rcspectiveSfuothers’ meetings did not take the trouble to find out what the others woro_doing.