SEALED BOXES USED

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 232, 27 June 1932, Page 10

SEALED BOXES USED

City Street Collections — & REMARK BY COUNCILLOR Some remarks made by a councillor at the last meeting of the council relative to street collection boxes, and the necessity for seeing that each one issued could be pasted down or sealed in some way so that they could not be opened, caused a “Dominion” reporter to inquire into the matter last I’ riday when the collection was being taken following the Mayor’s appeal for the women and children of distressed families.*’ Invariably it was found that the collecting boxes were labelled and the label paper gummed down, so that in order to open the box the paper would have to be slit open. Here and there the gummed part of the paper had not adhered very well to the tin box, but that was evidently accidental. “I’ve been collecting for various objects for many years now,” said a woman Justice of the Peace, who was on duty in a busy thoroughfare yesterda‘y, “but after reading those comments in the council I had a good mind not to come out at all, as I felt there was rather a nasty Inference against the collectors. You see, here is my -box. The paper is gummed down. It is only apart a little here, possibly from the warmth of my arm. But really I have been collecting' for a very long time,and cannot remember when the boxes were not pasted down, so that it makes it a little difficult to understand the remarks made in the council. I thought they were scarcely in good taste, too, with the Mayor about to make an appeal, as I am not sure that such comment does not affect amount of the collection.”

“I read the remarks referred to with a good deal of surprise,” said another constant collector, “and have ■ been rather surprised that someone has not had something to say about them before this. It’s difficult, in all conscience, to get the ladies to turn out at all for days like this. The councillor may have had the best of intentions, but I don’t think he was very tactful. It is not very great fun dunning people all day long. Ido not know whether or not such talk affects the result of the collection, but I should think it might. We are not able, to tell, as times are pretty hard with lots of nice people now, and some are not really able to give as they would like.”