POINTS FROM LETTERS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 149, 22 December 1930, Page 7

POINTS FROM LETTERS

A correspondent, "One Who Would Gladly Join," suggests that on Christmas and New Year's Eve, when people are in town for some fun the youthful fraternity should join together in one of the squares and carry on community singing. "I feel sure the shoppers and visitors to our city would join iv carols gladly and equally so would give coppers and threepenny pieces towards the unemployed or the hospitals for Christinas and New Year comforts. This would be far greater fun for the young men than parading the streets wearing masks. Wear th£ masks if they wish certainly, but make the fun for others besides themselves by brightening ;the sad who would be in the crowd." "A Desire to Help" refers to the effect bf new gold discoveries in producing prosperity in the past, and adds: "All these finds were made when the populations were very small, but the people were vigorous and determined, and they had not acquired the habit of flocking to and hanging about the cities. Quite aa important and valuable deposits of gold, oil, ;etc.> must still exist. There are also industries hitherto neglected by New Zealanders, for instance, our fisheries within pur own waters, and whaling in the Antarctic that might be exploited to our great advantage." "Sacrifice your Picnic" suggests that to show practical sympathy with those tini'ortunate ones who are out of employment through no fault of their own and especially "with"those who have dependents, all the day schools, Sunday Schools, retail and wholesale warehouses, Government Departments, workshops, etc., who are accustomed to holding aunual picnics should donate the funds to the unemployed fund. "One large day school spent over £50 on its picnic last year. I would ieeommend that all picnic committees work' to raise the funds as usual and hand them over to the Unemployment Fund •with the happy satisfaction of knowing that the money thus raised would be used for a better purpose in this time of stress."