ENGLAND'S UNEMPLOYED.

Mataura Ensign, 20 March 1909, Page 4

ENGLAND'S UNEMPLOYED.

A OSNEROI'S BENEr'.UTOU

\ generous offer has been male by Sir Peter Cirlaw Walker to t!i- i ivcipool Food auU Betterment- As-., union to assist in tho distress at prose it prevalent ill that city. Funds, to any amount proved necessary, ate i.i l-e placed at tho disposal of the asson ill <n for as long as the distress Lists. It iresolved that there shall be re ,»erlapping with other funds, and Unit- a" far a 8 possible untouched eases lor relief shall alono receive the attcal.o.i o' this "Walker Fund." Staring «nh tho lower ning,of poverty, n - pr>p>c'i that a thoroughly good meal ol ire- j Btcw, currant cake, and .o.t-: • shall lie given daily at the association s lic.i.l--nuarterß to siuplo respeetaMe wotcm and men out of employment, ami to provide provisions—and imissißv .1 >Ties —in tho homes of widows with young families uobly striving to loci- ih. -r homes together, both ot win h type ol case, it is believed, is not help.-! : s is felt necessary by any particular luii.lBut the chief aim in the piopoicjl assistance will l»< in comic tin w.m | clerks and higher-grade artisan-. "ho are hard pressscd by uncmpl.•vm.-ni. j lut have to keep up good appcai Miee.,. , This is a quite untouched, but -vrt.iinly diro and pathetic avenue for pra •:>->! sympathr. which lias been planned tobe carried out in a very private manner, there Wing n« relief coupons as ordinarily understood, but private, seal ed letter'order-form on selected tradosJneii, the title of the fund being omitted from this order-form, and the b,ui. " manager's name thereon Wing merely in monogram, out of consideration to th» spee»»ll. v dehcato feelings of this class of applicant.