ROTARY CLUB.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20420, 15 December 1931, Page 13

ROTARY CLUB.

CHRISTMAS CHEER FUND CAMPAIGN. Cbristchurch Rotary Club'a arrangements are almost complete for the street collection on Friday next for funds wherewith to provide a Christinas cheer hamper of necessary foodstuffs for poor and distressed families in the City and suburbs, and, incidentally, a Christmas shilling for each little inmate of the Orphanages.' Enquiries of the various social service organisations and workers show that there are approximately one thousand homes in the City and environs that will not have the wherewithal to purchase a decent Christmas meal ;to say nothing of Christmas cheer in its accepted sense —so the'Kotary Club and its helpers are anticipating a generous response when the collectors invade the City streets on Friday. . Itotarian E. H. S." Hamilton (chairman of the club's service committee), telephone 34-634, and Itotarian C. W. Clibborn (street collection supervisor), telephoue 35-174, hope to be. able staff thirty collecting stations in tlie Citv and Sydenham on Friday if more collectors are available, and they *wiU be glad to receive ..additional names. In past years; families m 'New Brighton and Sumner have . been, assisted, and this year again these suburbs have several homes Christmas dinner would be lacking 1 < not supplied by a generous public.- & "Flying Squads" of Rotary Club collectors will visit those boroughs":on Saturday, next, and they anticipate a .liberal response-to. their* appeal, respective Borough Councils have'grv n the requisite permission for the raid OB their burgesses' pockets. •* ■ Among those who-will assist Rotarv Club in its Christmas appeal ar«* several prominent citizens of bptn sexes; members of the Y.M.C.A.,, <*pfcrmists' Club, Toe H.. U.S.A., memberr •of Parliament, and clergymen. . Some of the collecting stations will be staffed all day on Friday byteanu supplied-by various offices and business houses. . .