Three-day Drive To Raise £5,000

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 176, 15 October 1927, Page 9

Three-day Drive To Raise £5,000

UNEMPLOYMENT FUND

MORE MONEY WANTED A THOROUGH canvass of the A city in the form of a threeday drive to-raise £5,000 was de c ded on by the Mayor’s Unem Payment Committee yesterday. In order to establish the organisation which will be required to carry the drive through the sports bodies • Commercial Travellers’ Club. Auton . - i bile Association. Medical Association. women’s organisations, and various others are to be asked to meet .it tne , council chamber on Wednesday ne\*. • and undertake the collection in the j areas allotted. j The proposal is to divide the whole i city into blocks, and to have these systematically canvassed, in addition to which there will be street collections. ‘Spectacular methods are not lik«l to be as effective as collecting don quietly/* stilted the committee whi *h drew up the "drive” report, "and spectacular methods are liable to afreet t 10 reputation of the city.” “At a time of financial stringent y when many well - known citizens t | themselves unable to give with their i accustomed liberality, the co-opera ti n |of every section of the communit must be secured, in order that the appeal may be successful” All citizens will be appealed to t . have whatever they can give for t relief of unemployed readv for f i collectors. Business establishments will e asked to contribute themselves, in-i to circulate lists among their employsaving time and preventing inconvenience as much as possible. PRESENT WORKS The suggestion that lower rates of pay should be given unemployed, and more men employed and that free tram rides should be given the men going to work, were again turned down b\ the committee. Mr. H. Frost said he had been asked to suggest these things again. Concerning tram fares he pointed out that it was a municipal undertaking, and some special privileges might be possible. The Mayor said lie could not agree to lower rates. He had taken a risk in putting forward the present lowrates. Men were being employed. a> far as possible in the district where they lived. It was suggested that where a man had a big family he should be giv< n continuous work instead of the work for only a fortnight at a time. Mr. J. A. C. Allum suggested that personal calls might result in getting employees to give, say, 5 per cent, of their wages for the week, the employers to cover this with, say, 10 per cent. In such a way a considerab e amount of money would be raised quickly and easily. The whole would be deducted and paid over by the em - plovers. The non-employers of labour would have to be canvassed personally. “I am sure that if you went to the Commercial Travellers’ Association and asked for their support they would provide you with an organisation in a week, and there would be no need to spend time getting another organisation.” suggested one speaker. “If the sports bodies got going tli• v could do a tremendous amoun marked the Mayor. “We ha heard so much from them might have considering the nr the work that is oeing done MEN EMPLOYED The town clerk reported the sum of £4,313 15s lod available for the works now in hand. Yesterday there were 54 men at Epsom, 44 at Grey Lynn and 34 at Walker’s Road, as well as 60 at the Museum and nine at Harbour View Road, the two last mentioned not being under the Unemployed Committee. To-day and on Monday or early next week nearly .50 more will taken on, and 64 men will be replaced by others. Last week 11 men who had found other jobs left the relief works.