WELLINGTON’S HUNGRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 August 1922, Page 4

WELLINGTON’S HUNGRY.

THE DAILY FOOD QUEUE. FILLING THE EMPTY CUPBOARD. If there are any in doubt as to people being hard pressed for food, at the present time, their doubts would hace been dispelled by a visit to the cellar of the • Town HaP on Wednesday afternoon, says a Wellington paper. There, in a murky half-light, extending along an almost dark corridor 10ft. below the level of the street, was a roughly-formed queue. It was, perhaps, a mercy to those in the food-line—men, women, and children—that the waiting place was wrapped in gloom. Some of them would probably never have stood in the line had they to face the full light of day, for therq are those who would sooner starve than stifle their pride. ost of the men—some of them stong abdc-bodied fellows—had the appearance of waterside workers, and manj r of them so described themselves. “Work on the wharf had been short for a good 12 months, and things did not seem to be improving.” That was the burden of their cry, and with an empty cupboard and a wife and children to feed, whiufcwere they to do? Perhaps the most pathetic units in the long and hungry line were the children. Many of them have been sharpened and. made “wise” by the desparate plight of their crowded homes, and do their best to get full rations foi- the family. To be assured that there is need, for further donations, one has only to watch the speed at which the food vanishes? It is the necessities that are most in demand—tea, sugar, milk coupons, bread, meat, flour, rice, and potatoes— and heaps of them are needed for the genuinely tivn—rv Jm VgelMnarMh