..SELF HELP CLUB
STRATFORD LAUNCHES PLAN TO ASSIST UNEMPLOYED. "CHANCE: NOT CHARITY." On the optimistic principle that self-help can become as infectious as gloom and depression, a "self-help" club has been started at Stratford, and the principle might possibly be applicable in Rotorua. Stratford has good gardening factilities, and those who are the prime movers hope rthat the kitchen garden and firewood scheme will mean that every hard-up family will be at least 15s a week better off. . , Every public body in the towii is represented in the local committee, and it will be a rule of tbe "self-help club" that healthy families cannot expect sustenance from relief depots next year unless they make a reasonable effort to benefit themselves ^ under the self-help scheme. It has been pointed out that if only 40 families were to enrol, and if they were enabled to supply themselves with fresh food and firing to the value of 10s a week for eight months in the year, the town would save £600 in charity, and have this amount available in the community. The . committee anticipates, however, that a much more substantial benefit than this will result. , .
Reeently a small leaflet settmg out the things which the "self-help club" would do was handed to every married unemployed man on the committee lists. The leaflet, which is headed with the motto, "Not charity, but a ehance," reads as f Ollows "(1) Will help you to grow 10s worth of vegetables weekly for eight months in the year. % "(2) Will locate good firewood for you and help you as far as we are able to get it home after you have split. "(3) Will give you this Spring at least 10s worth Qf seeds and manures and only ask you to give back tbe equivalent sum in excess vegetables next. autumn. "(4) Will send a man to help you with the garden. If your haekyard is shady, wind-swept, or full of couch, ask our gardening officer what you should do with it. . "(5) Will help to market your excess vegetables for you if you like, and give you back the cash. "(6) Will get you suitable gardening land if you are not certain of remaining in your present home 12 months. , • . . • \
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 8, 1 September 1931, Page 4
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