"PENNY DAY."

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 211, 7 September 1927, Page 8

"PENNY DAY."

COLLECTIONS IN SCHOOLS.

FOR mnBUFIATMEHT nwwy EDUCATION BOABD WAIVES OBJECTIONS. Having waived its objections to collections as a general practice, the Auckland Education Board decided at to-day's meeting to allow voluntary subscriptions to be taken up in city and suburban schools on a day known as "Penny Day 5, to assist to relieve unemployment distress. The question was raised as the result of the secretary of the Unemployment Association (Mr. C. J. Lindsay) drawing attention to the acuteness of the unemployment situation in Auckland.

The chairman (Mr. A. Burns) said that Mr. Lindsay had brought some pitiful cases of distress under his notice. There was more suffering through - unemployment than people generally realised. It was a question for the board to decide whether it had any objections to the collections being taken up.

It was pointed out that collections in aid of the blind had been refused, but the case of the unemployed was exceptional. Subscriptions-taken up in the schools would be subsidised if relief work was carried out in, the school grounds. ■•-..•

Mr. H. S. W. King said the present suffering amongst unemployed was something they had not had for yean. Endowments were made to assist the blind, and similar institutions which had previously applied to take up collections. He thought that self-sacrifice vould be inculcated into the minds of the children, and their education would be improved, consequently, if their attention -wag drawn to the privations =*«£ People were suffering through unemployment. h-S^^LT?*?* «greed to give