FOR THEIR COMRADES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 252, 6 August 1941, Page 4

FOR THEIR COMRADES.

APPPEAL TO P. AND T. EMPLOYEES. BENEFIT OF ENGLISH WORKERS. To assist Post and Telegraph employees in England, and their dependants whose livelihood has been seriously’ impaired as a result of the war, their comrades in New Zealand are setting about to raise £SOOO sterling. The appeal, which is just being launched, is to he made thz'ough the New Zealand Post and Telegraph Employees’ Association, and it is aimed at attaining the objective by the end of October.

At a meeting of the Ashburton subsection of the Association last evening the secretary (Air N. Gallop) was appointed chairman of a committee to undertake Ashburton’s share of the appeal. It was stated this morning that as a. sub-section, Ashburton will work in with Christchurch, where a Queen Carnival is to be held in aid of the fund. There will he three queens, representing the engineering, postal, and telegraphic sections of the organisation. All funds raised in Ashburton will go toward the Postal Queen.

It is, not yet known what Ashburton Post and Telegraph employees will have to do to raise funds, but a start has been made with a deduction from the wages of employees. Air .Gallop said this morning that all tho employees ho had so far approached were agreeable to 'a deduction for seven pay-days, and he believed that there would be 100 per cent, co-operation in this respect. It might be necessary later to hold efforts.in aid of the cause. As far as possible it was being made a purely departmental effort. It is thought likely that the amount raised in the appeal will be subsidised by a donation from the New Zealand Association.