CLOTHING NEEDED

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 68, 22 March 1933, Page 9

CLOTHING NEEDED

A NEWTOWN PROBLEM

The Newtmvn Relief Committee draws attention to the clothing drive to be held in Newtown on ; Saturday. The committee has been quietly carrying on an extensive work during the past two years, but. the need of the people has not diminished—indeed, it threatens to become greater than ever with the approach of winter. Two hundred and thirty families are now on its lists, and from, the depot two hundred' families receive food weekly and eighty are given a daily supply o'i milk. i'his. is made possible by grants from the Mayor's Kelief Fund and by jienerous gifts from the local butchers and bakers. ■

liie clothing, however, remains a very great problem. It is impossible to exaggerate the need. Many men go to work insufficiently clad, with jio sooks and badly shod, and they do not possess a change of underclothing. Only those who aie working among the people have any Meu how desperate conditions are. Bedding is another urgent matter. After rent and food have been paid for there is no money left for renewing blankets ami sheets that wear.out—to say nothing ot making provision for the little netvcomcrs.

As the committee is entirely dependent upon the kindly interest of friends, it has organised a clothing drive to take place on Saturday, commencing at ? o clock. riie area to be covered is from aewtown Park and Waripori Street to John Street and Hankey Street, from Coromandel Street to Hanson Street, and trom lasman :Stfeet to the Belt. If incn.ls will leave parcel* at their front doors, motorists, with the help of Scouts', a-iII collect them. Country friends, or those in -other, suburban areas who may w S t> , r-fl) may seud Parcels to the Rev. W. R. Milne, convener, St. James' Manse, Ixewtown, or.by ringing telephone 244J3 arrangements can be made for the collecting of gitts.