IN HUNDREDS OR TENS

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 12, 13 July 1935, Page 8

IN HUNDREDS OR TENS

TREE WORK FOR WORKLESS

An anonymous donor has forwarded £10 to the editor of the "Evening Post" as a conditional donation to tree-planting and beautiflcation by unemployed labour. Our correspondent ("Not a Wealthy Man") notices that Mr. B. Sutherland's offer, through the new Wellington Beautifying Society, of £100 to bo similarly expended in tree-planting— subject to ten others each contributing £100, total £1100—has not so far found a second. It occurs to "Not a Wealthy Man" that, even if ten donors I of £100 cannot be found, it may yet be possible to find one hundred donors of £10. He therefore makes'his £10 donation conditional on a hundred others each subscribing £iO, total £1010. Will the hundred 10-pounders reach the thousand pouuds mark before the ten 100-pounders? Or will both classes of donor fail to meet the challenge? "Not a Wealthy Man" in the following letter shows a full sense of the community values of giving work to the workless and beauty to',, the landscape: (To tho Editor.) Sir,—l am very pleased with the publicity given by your paper to the Beautifying Society, and am keenly disappointed that the wealthy people of Wellington have not responded to Mr. Sutherland's appeal,, which no doubt was inspired by the knowledge of children attending our State schools insufficiently fed, bootless, and insufficiently clad. Perhaps the amount of £100 was' too large for the poorer person to give—the wealthy do not seem inclined to give—to provide for the workless. I enclose ten pounds (£10) if one hundred citizens will each give the same amount. Then I should like you to hand it over to Mr. Holm, president of the Beautifying Society. I should like the money spent in providing work for unemployed, either by tree-planting on the hills, which really should come first, or in beautifying the Marine Drive starting at either Island Bay or Oriental Bay, continuing around the foreshore. If one hundred other citizens do not come to light with £10 each, then I shall ask you to return this £10 to me. I shall produce a copy of this letter and the numbers of the banknotes. Hoping you can see your way to raise this fund through the medium of your valuable paper.—l am, etc., | NOT A WEALTHY MAN. \ Wellington, 12/7/35. • The "Evening Post" is prepared to receive a £10 donation from any person, or a £10 donation from any group of.persons, in the hope that a hundred'of these donations will soon be enrolled, making, with the correspondent's conditional sum, a handsome addition (£1010) to the twin causes of employment and beautificatiori.