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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21175, 28 May 1934, Page 7

Is tJt s?ic^ WKJ 'ii' 'A-. N. i# .1$ 7Ti»~3 o ?^ii 43 4) Sli The Mayor's of Distress Thousands of Your Neighbours Are in Need ...... Will You Help Them ? STARVATION is a dramatic word, unreal, to you. Yet around the corner live some folks to whom starvation has become a household word, very real, very bitter. They have learned to pull their belts a little tighter and get along with scarcely a meal a day. h > m vS THEN, there is another home in which the father, a fine, strapping fellow with plenty of ability and ambition, has been out of a job for several months. The mother is sick. But she can't go to bed, because she has to take care of the children. The children still like to play and get into mischief, even though they are pale and undernourished and only half-clothed. Scene after scene of suffering could be described. Every kind of poverty, every kind of physical, mental, and moral breakdown, has grown out of the cruelly prolonged industrial depression. THE Canterbury Progress League, through the Mayor's Relief of Distress Fund, has initiated the most comprehensive mobilisation of social welfare and fund-raising resources that has been attempted for any purpose since the war. This plan emphasises the principle of local responsibility for local needs. The emergency is acute. The Mayor of the City calls upon every public-spirited organisation and individual to contribute as generously as is humanly possible. Give for your City, for your neighbours. Give from the depth of your heart. Blessed is he who gives. r-,$ HOW YOU CAN HELP Send a donation or a promise of a donation to The Treasurer, C/o Christchurch City Council Chambers, Manchester Street. Fill in the Coupon and Post NOW! Participate in a system of contribution arranged with your fellow-employees or employers. Contributions "can be spread over a period of five months from June 1. Special collection envelopes, information and assistance can be obtained from the Secretary of the Canterbury Progress League, Box 318. Telephone 31-489. MAYOR'S RELIEF OF DISTRESS FUND "HE GIVES TWICE WHO GIVES QUICKLY" a- *- m Si ■«y:j ■ L tfjtSl COUPON To the Hon. Treasurer, City Council Chambers, Manchester Street, Christchurch. I enclose the sum of • - • as a donation to this Mayor's Relief of Distress Fund. I promise to donate the sum of as a donation to the Mayor's Relief of Distress Fund. NAME . ADDRESS ...... DATE