City Mission street appeal today

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33448, 1 February 1974, Page 18

City Mission street appeal today

The Anglican City Mission needs at least $lOO.OOO for a new night shelter. Today it hopes to receive §5OOO in its annual street appeal to put towards this cause.

The new shelter, to be built on the present Hereford site, will replace the (two houses’’ containing administrative quarters and the (present complex of 16 beds. I “The houses are past repairing and totally inadequate for the demands made upon them,’’ said Mr A. W. Meneer, treasurer for the City Mission, yesterday. The new shelter will contain 26 beds, and facilities to expand to 30, two flats for ' the manager and assistant manager of the shelter and their wives, and administrative quarters and dining space. The bunkroom will be oni the first floor, and the; ground floor will include a

1 said yesterday that a small reserve fund could be drawn ; upon initially, but public appeals would be needed to; raise an expected $50,000 to: $60,000 —the balance after the subsidy. More than 1400 collecttors( ! will be on the city and sub-' ’ urban streets from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. today. Helpers are I lacked to apply at the' Cathedral crypt during the; appeal. Last year the night shelter' served 9663 meals, and provided beds for 5877 people. Also. 211 women and 38; (children were accommodated' in homes made available ( through the mission, and in' 'the managers’ flats.

small courtyard. The building will be constructed in three stages, to allow continuation of the shelter facilities at the same time as demolition is done. The Government has been asked for subsidy help, and; when notification is received i on the scale of the subsidy, construction will begin. The Rev. M. J. Goodall,! the Anglican City MissionerJ