CHRISTCHURCH UNEMPLOYED.
SOUP KITCHEN OPENED AND CLOSED.
IJY TELEOKAIMl —PBEfiB ASSOdATI >N. CHRISTCHURCH, July 3D. The Salvation Army's soup kitchen was opened to-day for the alleviation of the unemployed distress. A s-.rong force of army officers and members ready to serve out goods at 11 o'clock. At half-past eleven no applicants appeared, but at thut time a boy came with a message- that his mother had five young children, and his father had been out of \vo;k nine weeks, and there was 10s a week rent to pay. He would be glad of soup and bread to save the children from straving. The husband had got work now, on the City Council, and the relief asked for is only temporary. The boy was supplied with soup and bread, and an order on the butcher for meat. At twelve, there being no further callers, the kitchen was closed. The Brigadier says that there is not anything like the distress the agitators make out. Still there are deserving cases and these the Army will supply.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9155, 31 July 1908, Page 5
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181CHRISTCHURCH UNEMPLOYED. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9155, 31 July 1908, Page 5
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