HELPING THE WORKLESS

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 51, 29 August 1922, Page 5

HELPING THE WORKLESS

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Sir,—Perhaps you would find room for the following suggestions to help the unemployed funds:—-(1) During the war, there were collection of bottles. In torn* of {he suburb*, bottlemen are rare—at . least, they do not call on me—and these aooumnlata id numbers and are broken or buried in pits. . If someone with a motorcar or lorry would give their services t»* lift these and convey them to a bottle depot in town, something would accrue to the fund. I have a good many dozens myself. (Kbandallah.) •(2) People have been aeked to gin a day's work in their gardens. That invitation is too general. I think- ft would find more response if a local committee would make it more concrete. Take Ngaio and Khandallah, for instance. There would surely be fifty houses who would try to manage this if the respective "progressive associations'.' waited on them and got promises. That would give five men two weeks' work. Looking ■at it from the point of the individual, it does not seem wortb while going to the Town Hall and giving vague direction for a man to lose himself in a strange suburb, but a little organisation could remove these hindrances. Lota of housekeepers, by manipulating their household accounts for a week or two, could manage the necessary day's wage, .and would have the double satisfaction of a bit of work done, and knowing they had provided a day's food for a needy family.—l am, etc., , . ■ SUBURBAN., 28th. August.