UNEMPLOYMENT

Evening Star, Issue 21667, 12 March 1934, Page 10

UNEMPLOYMENT

RESERVES ' DEPARTMENT Group 869, of the reserves department, will report for work at 8 a.in. to-morrow at the Mornington Football Ground. CONCERT AND DANCE On Wednesday evening, at the Trades Hall, the Social Committee ol the Dunedin Central Branch is to hold a special treat for the unemployed. The Toe H. Concert Party will give its services free. Everyone will receive supper, and all children will receive fruit and sweets. A family ticket (Is 6d) admits all children, and a single ticket costs 6d. A tlaiiee will follow the concert. NO. 4 DISTRICT The dances held in the South Dunedin Town Hall by the above committee have been attended with an everincreasing number of patrons, who show by their enthusiasm that the efforts in catering for the people are appreciated. The dances held lately included a fancy dress and mad hatters’ dance. In these two dances alone sixteen prizes were allotted to the successful winners of the various competitions. The special dance of the year will be held on Thursday, Mach 22. Full particulars will be advertised. One special feature at this function is that all patrons will receive a prize. TRAINING BOYS FOR FARM WORK AN AREA LEASED [Per United Press Association! CHRISTCHURCH, March 9. The Christchurch Unemployment Committee intends to make a serious effort to train boys for work on farms. For this purpose it has leased an area of thirty acres on the outskirts of the city, on which boys will receive training in such operations as milking and the use of the simpler farm implements. Farmers asking for a boy often stipulate that he must have had some country experience, or that he must able to milk. The boys while being trained will live at home, travelling to and fro, as the committee has no funds to maintain them at the farm. CONCERT AT ST. HILDA Despite the weather last evening the Coronation Hall, St. Hilda, was comfortably filled on the occasion of the Sunday evening concert given in aid of the" firing fund of the mayor’s relief depot, St. Hilda, to assist in subsidising coal to the unemployed of the borough. Most of the items were given by talented juveniles, who acquitted themselves well and received a veryappreciative hearing. All the items were encored. The following contributed :—Vocal solos, Miss Isabel Dackre; elocution, Miss Yvonne Finnert.v; mouth organ selections. Master Graham Felton; humorous character elocution, Miss Zclda Morris; vocal sols, Mr Grahame M'Kinlay; vocal solo, Master Diincan Dackre ; humorous recitations, Mr A. Holly; vocal solos, Master Robert Donaldson. Mr D. C. Cameron was the chairman, and a hearty vote of thanks was passed to the performers and the accompanists, Mrs Tavendale and Mrs' Dackre; also to the organiser;'-Mr R. P. Williams. He announced another concert for next Sunday.