HARDSHIP IN AUCKLAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 395, 2 July 1928, Page 1

HARDSHIP IN AUCKLAND

MISSIONER’S REPLY toR SAKE OF MOTHER AND CHILDREN” “If the Government is to investigate leases of hardship in Auckland, will ley investigate the cases I know of tfsonally ?” This remark was made this morn«by the Rev. C. G. Scrimgeour, tthodist City Missioner, who has been ionsible for relieving many cases hardship and poverty in Auckland. Regarding the case at 34 St. Paul feet, where a family was left in ■nt when bailiffs removed the furnipe, Mr. Scrimgeour makes the folding statement: “The facts are that I investigated the se thoroughly myself. I am aware *t the family in question has been Iped considerably over a long period 'various institutions, and this fact w proves to us that the case was foer one of general acute distress P*® the man had been unable to find pilar employment for many years, [■that every institution which had “Ped him had been mistaken and P given assistance where the recipiWi were unworthy. About £SO had been given to the; P» but this sum, stretched over the Wod during which this man had been ' and unemployment, Jaunts to very little. In our own RPO in the case we look past the man |**B wife and three cihldren, whose JSbt was that of being left in an house on a wet and bitterly a night without a stick of furniture rkedding i » i- man was offered employment relief work. This unfortunately P at a time when he was employed porarily at his own trade, that of jjgunter. He chose his own trade in F*erence to other work. Considering the man’s health, I doubt L. f r he could have done the work K h^‘ m - he - - eak i!1 - there be little to say ,y ,? Ur the an, we could not in Lq make that an exfile .1., eav l R S a mother and three hie I< iF en who were not respon- / their am irs.” irou»v, U ¥. has been forwarded it T . Sun to Mr. Scrimgeour F Assistance of this family. A S, GNALLERS help exar nple of helping the ( Was given at the reunion fry nt* Zealft nd Signalling Com-Ueut-o?, ,Urd . ay evening. sinoaK 1161 T - Dawson said )• Rian,., , a d bee*n associated with Mi Soldiers’ Association he doji that many of the soldiers L®resenT + an<i out - He thought that *ir A,m/i nere were between 400 and t eomS C « land * If an >' of those presn? ar ® a ny money or clothes Kso elation* 11 t 0 SCnd SUCh helP I*® ® yenin i; a collection was r.u na .“ ose present subscribed h will be forwarded to the