TO RELIEVE UNEMPLOYMENT

Evening Star, Issue 20571, 25 August 1930, Page 6

TO RELIEVE UNEMPLOYMENT

MAYOR’S ART UNION SUCCESSFUL fund will provide needed work The number of prizes missed on Recount of books of tickets having been returned unsold was a feature of the drawing of the unemployment art union under the auspices of the , mayor on Saturday night. Sixty numbers were drawn before the eighteen prizes were allocated. , The first prize of £SO went to tielu l No. 25,547, whose identity was .hidden by tho. address “23 Jones street." “Gilks, Vauxball.” with, ticket No. 10,101, won the second prize of £25, and Mr G. Baker, Commercial Hotel, Cromwell won the third prize of £lO. The winning prize was the tenth to bo drawn. . „ • , The fifteen prizes, of £1 each were won by the following:~R.. Larkins, 396 Cumberland street;. Tramways Officials' Union; Mrs W, Penrose, 15 London street; A. E. road; J. Dolan, Hillside Workshops; Miss C. Uren, Boys’ Home, Lookout Point; Miss M'Lareii, 113 Valley road, Cavcrsham; Mrs M. Johnson, 30 Hotting street; H; S. Bingham, 283 Moray place;,J. Hood, Port Chalmers; C. Burrell, Oval Hotel, Hori Nugai, ,Box 547, Dunedin; C. Henry, Dunedin Hospital; George Jeffery, 69 Fox street; Miss M. Easton, 41 Easther crescent. ■ “ Olio effort has been a gratifying success,” said the mayor.. Citizens had subscribed the £IOO distributed in prize money, and the total cost of running the: art union had been less than £4O, while the proceeds were £BBI. With students’ capping day collection, and the money now in hand plus the ono or two other small sums, £I,OOO would now be available. It was proposed to use this, with the Government subsidy, for tho immediate relief of needy- cases. The money would pay for. badly-needed ■ work which could be offered at once.

At ,tho drawing which was held under'proper supervision, there was a fair of the public, some of whom were invited to assist.