Charity Begins At Home
A touching incident occurred at the Wellington central depot for the clothes drive recently. An old woman, obviously in very poor circumstances, appeared at the door of the sorting room and asked anxiously if there were a good pair of size four shoes there. When it was explained that the clothes were for refugees, she looked, wistfully towards the corner where the footwear was piled, then down at her own split and down-at-heel shoes. That glance was .too much for the sorters, and after a brief consultation on the ethics of the thing, they decided that charity begins at home and sent the old woman away happy in the possession of a serviceable pair of size fmir hrneues.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21178, 30 July 1940, Page 9
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122Charity Begins At Home Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21178, 30 July 1940, Page 9
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