AID BUREAU UNKNOWN TO MANY
The publicity campaign of the Christchurch Citizens’ Advice Bureau had shown that many people had not heard of the bureau, or had misconceptions about it, said Mrs J. Lunn, the bureau organiser.
"One person seeing our name shortened to C.A.B. asked if we were a new taxi service, another thought we were a youth organisation, and a third mistook one of! our booths for the electoralroll stand,” said Mrs Lunn. Many people also expected the bureau to be able to find them •mplovment or accommodation “on the spot,” not|
f realising that it was a re- > ferral service. Few inquiries had been made about budgeting assis- : rance at the temporary I booths set up in the suburbs; I nost inquiries were about the t free legal-advice service, Mrs Lunn said. The campaign has also
been designed to find out where best the interviewers can meet people’s needs, and some of the booths in the suburbs will be moved for the next two weeks. In the two weeks since the campaign began, inquiries at the main bureau in Gloucester Street have increased more than 50 a week,: Ito 200 and 219.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33966, 6 October 1975, Page 14
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