GOOD CHEER DEPOT

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 81, 17 March 1933, Page 6

GOOD CHEER DEPOT

RE-ESTABLISHMENT SCHEME. ADOPTED BY HASTINGS. A proposal to erect in Lyndon road on borough property a building in which to re-establish the Good Cheer Food Depot was brought before the notice of the Hastings Borough Council last evening in a letter written by Mr. J. F. Jones on behalf of the depot committee, and found a most heartily sympathetic response from the Mayor, Mr. G. F- Roach, and the council. A tentative estimate reckons the cost of the building at about £l4O, and a committee consisting of the Mayor and Councillors Henderson and Loach was appointed to go into the matter with the depot committee. Few people realised, said Councillor C. 11. .Slater in making a general reference to the depot committee’s work, how much the committee members had spent in the way of lime, energy, and money to serve the: community last year, “They richly deserve,” he said, “all fbe help that we can possibly give them,” Referring to the announcement I hat tho work would be done by the unemployed if the council would supply the materials, Councillor Slater sug-

gested that, as many people last year had kept the depot going with services and gilts of food, many other residents might care to help with gifts of building materials for the. erection of the proposed new depot. It was announced also that Mr. C. Carrell, Borough Health Inspector, had offered as a lead to do all the plumbing work for nothing. The depot committee performed a wonderful work last year, said His > Worship, and had served 30,000 meals i lo the needy. Their work should appeal to every right-minded person, and I I hey wore a body of men who had I given their time and their labour will--1 ingly and uncomplainingly, their object ! being to make it impossible for any I one to say that lie had gone io bed hungry. Alter some further discussion, in which several councillors expressed their praise of the committee’s work, tlie motion appointing a sub-committee of the council was unanimously curried.