FREE ENTERTAINMENT.
CITY'S DESTITUTE PEOPLE. CIVIC THEATRE'S GENEROUS OFFER;! Hundreds of poor people are now wearing good warm clothing as the re-'., suit of the clothes collection by the Auckland commercial travellers, but as' ;.-, one of the executive of the club remarked this morning they have nowhere to goJ.v; In order that a little happiness may be - brought into the drab lives of the city's poor and indigent, the club approached ' Mr. Thomas A. O'Brien, of the ;Civic Theatre, with a request that lie provide ?; free seats for the women and children v supplied with clothing, and Mr. O'Brien • promptly fell in with the idea, '.••> The Commercial Travellers' Club; afc ' its own expense isprinting admission, tickets for the Civic Theatre, arid com-.-mencing.on Saturday week, 300 women";-: and children will -be. admitted daily to the morning sessions.; Organisation", methods are being perfected arid the ; v various societies that deal with the., poor are-being communicated with, and asked to distribute.the tickets. To ensure that the mothers will thor : ' v. oughly enjov the . programme the. ctyb • • is arranging for members to be-in attend-. ance every morning io see' - that 'the % ' children .' are properly- looked ? afte^ : Tickets will"-not bo issued to men. 1
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 161, 10 July 1930, Page 8
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199FREE ENTERTAINMENT. Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 161, 10 July 1930, Page 8
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