WINTER RELIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 119, 22 May 1931, Page 11

WINTER RELIEF

FOOD AND 'CLOTHING

DEPOT ARRANGEMENTS

A further ineeting of the" executive committee set up! in connection witli the appeal made by the Mayor for the assistance of those in distress this winter was held yesterday afternoon at the Town Hall: The Mayor, Mr. T. C. A. Hislop, presided. The meeting decided that the central depot for all foodstuffs should be established at tho Town Hall, or in that vicinity, and that those who can help by sending in clstliing for distribution should send or take it; to1 the Red Cross headquarters in Dixon street, where there are staff and facilities for reception, fumigation, and 'classification' of clothing, bedding, etc. • ■ .'■■■•■' : Captain- M. S. Galloway, secretarygeneral of the Bed Cross, said that that location had also the advantage of being closer to the districts where ■ the need was at present greatest. Canon Fiolden Taylor was-setting up a "doss house" for 150 single men, in which work Toe H was assisting. ;; On the motion of the Eev. F. Wilkinson, it was decided that the standing inter-church committee in each district be tho nucleus of each district committee. '■■"■'',■'..' ■ Mr. Frascr mentioned . the sterling work that was done year in and out by the Sisters of Compassion, who ran a soup 'kitchen every winter, where anyone could get a bowl of soup without any questions being asked. Mr. P. Hoskins, representing the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, said that the Sisters during the year ended 31st December last had served 26,00.0 people with soup, and had provided 10,000 meals. They had relieved 800 cases, involving. 2445 people.' This year the demand was much heavier. A,finance committee Consisting of the Mayor (Mr. T. C. A.' Hislop), Colonel J. J. Esson, Sir Alex. Eoberts, Mr. D. A. Ewen, and Mr. H; Hayward Mirams was'then, set up to handle-all moneys subscribed; Mr. Fraser said that a full audit should be made at the conclusion of the work. ■ Mr. H. F. South, mentioned that in Auckland the Farmers'. Union had volunteered to provide quantities of vegetables and meat... Possibly, if approached, tho; Farmers' Union here .would respond in, a similar way. On the'motion of Mr., Fraser the meeting decided to ask each assisting organised society for somo guide as to its programme for the winter,, so that the management committee could have something concrete before it. as to seetionalised work. This was agreed to. . ; .,-;' ; .'...' . -.- -.'', :.-. .-.:\ The Mayor announced that so. far the Town Hall Fund amounted to £272, and the "Post'? fund to £200. ; It. -was,- decided that a' deputation. wait on the Prime Minister at the carli-. cst occasion with -the""request that^all. funds subscribed should be subsidised £1 .for £1, and that the railways should carry all donated' foodstuffs freight free. ;...-. . ~ . '> ..;.