STREET COLLECTIONS.

Evening Star, Issue 21286, 15 December 1932, Page 14

STREET COLLECTIONS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —“Hard-up Business Man” would stop street collections. He must know that these are about the only mean's available to get generous responses to aid the poor and needy. Many of our citizens of Friday and other Fridays were witnesses to the quiet way that the ladies went about their work in the cold and rain. AVhat was given was given by sympathetic citizens, and we want them, too. Most collectors when they visit homes or shops, do their work systematically, and as far as shops are concerned they mostly get the permit from the heads of the firm. I take it that the winter is in business, and therefore gets bis salary or wages from Friday to Friday. Surely he could put in a modest threepenny piece without a grudge. The writer lias nn idea of reorganisation of this work, but I can assure him that no reorganisation is needed. Permits for collections are granted by the City Council. Dunedin people are always ready and generous to the call, and any response for charity sake is taken up. Friday is the day allotted for collections, and being pay day, it suits.— I am, etc., A.A.H. October 15.