ENTERPRISING MEN
START OWN HOSTEL. A number of single unemployed men have banded together and opened a hostel of their own in a large house at the eorner of Fitzgerald Avenue and Ferry Road, which was formerly used as the headquarters of the Christchurch Free Ambulance Society (says the Times). The men have received a number of private subscriptions and gifts of furniture and bedding to give them a start with their enterprise, and have appointed one man as cook. They pool the rations which they draw from the Hospital Board and relief depots, and also have received donations of food from farmers in the Marshland distriet. At present there are about a dozen men living at the hostel, bnt there will be accommodation for thirFy-two when sufficient beds and bedding are obtained. They are paying £2 5s a week rent, and In order to help them a number of well-wishers are organising a concert to he held shortly.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 252, 15 June 1932, Page 4
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