NIGHT REFUGE WORK

Shannon News, 16 November 1926, Page 2

NIGHT REFUGE WORK

MINISTER'S SECRET TEST. A NIGHT IN A SYDNEY HOME. Presiding recently in Sydney at the annual meeting of the City Night Refuge and Soup Kitchen, the New South Wales' Minister of Health. Mr George Cann, paid a tribute to the organisation's efforts in the cause of charity. The institution, he said, was known to his department as among the most genuino in the city. Its doors were always open to those who were homeless, or who were without means of sustenance. The institution's activities embraced men and women of every creed and class. The question of a man's religion was not allowed to obtrude. Mr Cann referred to the period immediately following the war, when he was directly connected with the Labour Department. Determined to get first-hand knowledge of the conditions in a certain city'home for the poor, he said that on one occasion he donned dungarees and spent the nisht in the institution. He was pleased to say that he found no reason fcr comrlaint.

The president, Mr George Stedman, said that the Refuge and Soup Kitchen had been in existence for fifty-nine years. During the year ended June 30 free, meals were given to 111,424 persons, and shelter to 30,250. .