Four Days as Limit For Street Appeals

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 782, 1 October 1929, Page 7

Four Days as Limit For Street Appeals

LOCAL BODIES’ IDEA “BECOMING AN IMPOSITION” Street collections are becoming toe numerous, and four days should be set aside in a year for the purpose of public appeal for funds. A conference of representatives of local bodies in the Onehunga Borough Council last evening reached this view. The conference had been called in response to an invitation to discuss the question by the Mayor of Onehunga, Mr. E. Morton. An executive was formed with the intention of considering applications. Representatives present were: —Mr. C. T. Clements, Mayor of Otahuhu; Mr. J. P. McPhail, Mayor of Birkenhead; Messrs. F. Scarborough and R. W. Sanft, for the Mount Roskill Road Board; Mr. W. G. Mulholland, for the One Tree Hill Road Board; Mr. F. J. Elliston, for the borough councils of Takapuna and Devonport; Mr. J. H. Langley, Mount Albert Borough Council; Mr. P. J. Watts, Newmarket Borough Council; and members of the Onehunga Council. A letter from the Auckland City Council informed the conference that the city had already communicated with organisations which had applied to hold street collections, asking them to meet in conference to consider one concerted appeal. It appeared to be unnecessar3 r for the council to proceed further until the result of such a conference could be known. The opinion of the New Lynn Borough Council was that the remedy was in the hands of the local bodies. No concerted action, it was contended, could increase the powers already in existence. The Mount Eden Borough Council merely acknowledged receipt of the invitation to attend the conference. CONFERENCE'S DECISIONS The conference made a resolution giving it as the opinion of the meeting that street collections were far too numerous. The meeting considered that the number of appeals had reached the stage where it would become an imposition on the good nature of the generous section of the community. The conference considered, further, that only four days in a year should he set aside for street collections. Another resolution suggested that, two of the four days should be allowed for the Poppy Day and the St. John Ambulance Association appeals, the remaining two days to be allocated to approved organisations. An executive committee of representatives of the local bodies was formed to deal with applications. The delegates to the conference were instructed to report to their local bodies to have the resolutions at the conference confirmed. Applications for appeals would then be invited, and would be considered at a further meeting of the executive.