STREET APPEAL.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20497, 16 March 1932, Page 14

STREET APPEAL.

4—. ENROLMENTS COMMITTEE. ARRANGEMENTS FOR FRIDAY. Arrangements are well in hand for the street appeal to be held on Friday in aid of tho Mayor's Relief of Distress Fund. A meeting of the Enrolments Committee was held last night. Present: Mr S. "W. Jameson (chairman), Mrs Hugh Williams, Misses M. G. H&velaar, R. Niblock, and Bowderi, Messrs J. W. Hilary, J. J. Dougall, J. Mawson Stewart, T. E. Brown,. J. J. Staples, A. E. Summerfield, and J. F. Eaines. The chairman reported- that the Prime Minister, the leader of the Opposition, the Minister of Unemployment, and the Mayor of Christchurch would speak "over the air" on Thursday evening, at about 8 o'clock, in support of the street day appeal. He further announced that there would, in all probability, be 500 collectors. The response to the appeal for helpers had been splendid. Several firms had offered to "man" certain street corners, one organisation providing six collectors all day long, equivalent to thirty-six people. The Rotary Club and Automobile Association would provide motor-cars for the conveyance of collectors to various outlying points throughout the day.

: —t MESSAGE AND DONATION. LORD BLEDISLOE'S SYMPATHY. [Fbom Our Parliamentary Reporter.] WELLINGTON, March 15. Responding to Mr D. 6. Sullivan's request for a goodwill message for the special appeal for the Mayor's Unemployment Relief Fund by the street collection on Friday, the GovernorGeneral has forwarded a letter to Mr Sullivan saying that he will gladly accede to the request, and enclosing a cheque for ten guineas. Lord Bledisloe hopes that the appeal will hi a success, and benefit the unemployed relief funds in Christchurch. The message is as follows: "I trust that the citizens of Christchurch, of all classes, and according to their ability, will give practical support to the street collection effort next Friday in aid of the Mayor's Funds for the Relief of Distress. It would indeed be a source of pride, and in consonance with the high philanthropic traditions of the City, if this effort in conjunction with the All Nations Fair, which is being promoted with the same object, is instrumental in meeting the abnormal claims during the coming winter of all its inhabitants who are in real need of tho necessaries of life as the result of the prevailing economic depression. "Let us all, in spite of our own reduced circumstance's, and in a spirit of heartfeit sympathy with those who in these stressful times are less fortunate than ourselves, do what lies in our power to 'bear one another's burdens' and so fulfil that Divine law of brotherly love, whose observance adds so materially to our own truest happiness."