LOWER HUTT RELIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 117, 13 November 1931, Page 8

LOWER HUTT RELIEF

INTERESTING FIGURES

Data concerning the activities of the >ower Hutt Relief Committee has been tabulated by the secretary, Mr. Williams. He states that 805 persons have applied for assistance, 554 being married men with children, 101 married men without children, and 150 single men and women living apart from their husbands. During October about 10 per cent, of those registered did not receive assistance. The following good* have been sold at cheap rates, the amount received being m parentheses: Meat, 21 tons (£294 6a bd); potatoes, 52 tons (£lO3 16s 6d); coal, coke, and wood, 177 tons and 581 bags (£2OO 18s); boots, 384 pairs (£9O 12s); boot repairs (£26 12b); shirts and trousers, 128 (£l9 Us) • Ifle amount spent on material for the industrial committee ■was £67 13s sd, the value of goods made '£75 10b lOd. The cost of material tor the sewing guild was £45 12s _ Us. Groceries to the value of £13 l»s were issued free. Orders on grocers -to the amount of £15 lls were given by individuals and the League of Mothers, and residents of Stilling street donated groceries. Other donations were: Mr. V. King, chemist, medicines, £14 19s; seed potatoes and manure, £20; Messrs. F. Cooper and Sons, seeds for 2% acres; W. Copping, cabbage plants for %-acre; Nimmo and Blair, sack of peas; T. Waugh and Son, seeds and plants to the value of £14 12s; Mrs. Webb, 700 cabbage plants; Mr. W A Walker, half a sack of 6eed potatoes; Mr. a. A. Skilleter, 2 bags of seed potatoes. „,_,„ ~ The total expenditure was £1517 14s sd, and the fund shows a debit balance of £365. At a meeting o£ the executive on Wednesday, votes of thanks were passed to all donors of cash or goods, and thanks were also given to Mrs. Sharp for the production of "Princess Chrysanthemum," and to St. James's Vestry for the free use for three months (including lighting and heating), of St. James's Hall.