WANT IN CHRISTCHURCH

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 389, 25 June 1928, Page 16

WANT IN CHRISTCHURCH

UNEMPLOYMENT SERIOUS FAMILIES WITHOUT MONEY FOR MONTHS (Special to THE SUN) CHRISTCHURCH, Sunday. “There are some families who have been practically without money throughout the summer and winter, and there is more want in the city this year than I have ever seen before,” said Ensign Newton, of the Salvation Army, in Christchurch yesterday. do the best we can for them,” he continued, “but we have not enough clothing. Several mothers have told me that they can’t send their children to school, because they haven’t enough clothes.” Mr. D. G. Sullivan, M.P., chairman of the executive of the Citizens’ Unemployment Committee, and of the Finance Committee of the City Council, said the council’s contribution toward unemployment would be about £6,000. If the public found £6,000 in subscriptions, it would, with the Government subsidy, make about £IB,OOO worth of work available. It is expected that the river boulevard scheme wil 1 be begun this week, and this should absorb a good number of unemployed once it gets under way.

DISTRESS IN DUNEDIN

DUNEDIN, Sunday. “Distress in Dunedin has never been so bad in all my experience,” said the Rev. V G Bryan King. “No fewer than 220 men have called at the mission house this month, and last month there were 269, all wanting work, food and clothing.” Very many of the callers, said Mr. King, were young men willing to take work of any sort. They had no chance on the relief works, which are reserved for married men. Numbers of women also are vainly seeking employment. An advertisement this week for a housekeeper produced 70 replies.