HOME OF COMPASSION: LAUNDRY APPEAL

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 5, 4 February 1925, Page 29

HOME OF COMPASSION: LAUNDRY APPEAL

Sir, —I notice in a recent issue of the Tablet that that veteran of apostolic charity. Mother Aubert had received through the land offices of your contributor, Anne, an offering for her admirable Homes. Further, from the good Mother’s acknowledgement, I find that the donation is being banked by her to the credit of the steam laundry fund. This is, so far as I have noticed, the first mention of the much-wanted laundry, and I congratulate you on having been the means of bringing the matter forward. As a result of your notice, my own cheque has gone forward to Island Bay, and if you are prepared to open a list, you may begin it with my donation of ten guineas which you were instrumental in securing. Mother Aubert tells us consistently that she draws on the Bank of Providence to advance the material as well as the spiritual interests of her wonderful all-New Zealand Institute, but the cheques on that bank have to be exchanged for others on every-day forms for every-day banks before contractors will respect them. We, Catholics and non-Catholics are in other words, the instruments of that ever-kind Providence. The Wellington Homes are the admiration of a very wide public, and quite lately a very influential and observant body —the Film Companies of Wellington over the entire proceeds of their first mammoth function to this charity. Such precedence was a marked recognition of the worth of the Homes of Compassion, With all the generous giving resultant from widespread admiration many handicaps are still experienced by the zealous workersnotably in the laundry department. Every reason of convenience, no less than the more serious matter of hygienic precaution will surely make a strong, plea for the early establishment of the projected steam latfhdry. Incidentally I may say that I have since heard that the plans will involve an expenditure of £7500, This means generous giving and to your lady readers who appreciate these things better than merj men, I ask that you present, this plea. , It is put forward in the year of the canonisation of the inspirer of the Home of Compassion—the saintly Cure d’Ars -and his legion of devout clients could scarcely honor

him in a better way in this Holy Year, than by giving aims to the sterling charity which he has so splendidly blessed. Yours, etc., —H. P •