Gardening for ‘disadvantaged’
A Market garden is being, established in Christchurch ; this week-end to provide jobs for persons with "social 1 i disabilities.” ! The Christchurch City i Mission is setting up the ! garden on Anglican Social jServices property. I The City Missioner (Capjtain P. C. Coughlan) said , that the garden, the wherelaboiits of which he did not |want to disclose, was being) I dug over and sown in po-
, tatoes by four Government relief workers. Once the garden had been broken in the mission would ) employ about six persons Ifull-time in it. These persons were under ) the care of the mission's social workers and would not usually be able to get I employment. j These persons wanted jobs ? and had the same right' as I everyone else to work but )were at a distinct disadvantage.
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Press, 7 December 1978, Page 7
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