Mayor’s Christmas Appeal

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 292, 10 December 1936, Page 6

Mayor’s Christmas Appeal

(To the Editor.) Sir, —For some years past it has been the practice for the Mayor at this season of the year to make an appeal for funds wherewith to mako Christmas a little more cheerful for many of our less fortunate citizens and their families.

Owing to the many calls that have been made during the past few years, i am somewhat diffident about appealing again. In doing so, however, I would point out that this fund is not for assisting those registered as unemployed, but more particularly for those who are in straitened circumstances and arc excluded from the unemployed by virtue of their old age or physical disability, many of these being old residents who are now unable to work. Some arc, of course, in receipt of the old ago pension. Unfortunately, there are many who cannot even qualify for this small allowance.

Many of those seeking assistance were able to supplement their pension, or where not entitled to a pension were able to eke out an existence by au occasional few days’ work, but owing to tnc economic conditions this has been monied them in recent years. May I, therefore, appeal to our more fortunate citizens to assist me, aud mako Christmas of 1936 a little cheerful for those placed less fortunately than ourselves, many of whom have borne the heat and burden of the early pioneering days.—l am, etc., A. E. MANSPORD, Mayer. Palmerston North, December 7. Mayor’s Xmas Appeal Fund Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Mansford .. £3 3s