City mission report

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32661, 17 July 1971, Page 19

City mission report

About $l3OO in cash, and a number of special gifts had been given to the Anglican City Mission in response to this year’s winter appeal, the City Missioner (the Rev. M. J. Goodall) told a meeting of the City Mission committee this week.

Response to the appeal had been die best on record. The gifts had been needed urgently, and the need for special aid had been the greatest since 1967. Goods, clothing, furniture, and blankets had been given. People were finding it harder to get work, especially in the city, said Mr Goodall, according to the evidence of some families and young people with whom the mission had come in contact They had helped to place a number of young men iii forestry work by providing them with boots and blankets.

The Open Door centre which works in association with the City Mission had been the means of keeping a number of unemployed young people off the street. The Labour Department and Forestry Service had trained some young men for work. Mr Goodall said that the total bed occupancy at the mission’s night shelter for the month of June had been 337. Seventy-six men were accommodated and temporary accommodation had been found for eight families and 10 single girls.