UNEMPLOYMENT

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 33, 9 February 1927, Page 8

UNEMPLOYMENT

RAISING OF FUNDS

(By Telegraph.)

(Special to "The Evening Post.")

AUCKLAND, This Day.

A scheme to raise funds by art unions to provide work for the unemployed has been submitted in the form of a notice of motion to the Auckland Unemployment Committee by Mr. E. Sharp, secretary of the Auckland Returned Soldiers' Association. It will be considered by the committee next Monday. - Outlining the scheme, Mr. Sharp says that art unions of short duration could be held every two months. The necessary tickets would cost Is, and selected unemployed men could be employed in selling them. The prizes would be, say, £50, £25, £5, and twenty of £1. totalling £100, for each art union) from which, he believes, very large sums could be raised without difficulty. The profits, he considers, should be subsidised by the Government, and the whole sum would be handed to three trustees, say, the Mayor of Auckland, the chairman of the Harbour Board, and Mr. E. Pholan (who is secretary of the Timber Workers' Union), who would, allocate it to the local bodies, which would expend it upon work for which the unemployed of their own districts would have the first claim.