STREET APPEALS

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22467, 30 July 1938, Page 20

STREET APPEALS

TO TOT EDITOR OF TOT PRESS, Sir,—lt gave me pleasure to read in your recent issue that the Christchurch City Council “had no recommendation to make” in the matter of prohibiting street appeals—the issue of badges and the sale of goods in street collections. The petition, as you report, _ presented by the deputation, consisting of Messrs B. Ahlfeld, W. Berryman, and A. W. Sellars, to the by-laws committee of the City Council was asking something unreasonable and contrary to the best feelings of the human instincts. It would be a bad thing to close the channels of human sympathy. It would also deny worthy objects and institutions public support, and deprive the citizen of small means an opportunity of giving his small donation. Wherever one travels one finds this privilege of street appeals in vogue—especially common in English cities. Of course, sometimes some may feel indisposed to give, and perhaps uncharitable to some objects for which street appeals are made; but it seems to me that the majority of these appeals appeal to the majority of citizens.—Yours, etc., GiL<S« Lincoln, July 29, 1938.