TIMELY AID

Northern Advocate, 4 August 1932, Page 6

TIMELY AID

GENEROUS DONATIONS. TWO SCHEMES OF SETTLEMENT. UNEMPLOYED MEN AND BOYS. (Special to “Northern AdA'oc.ate.”) ■ AUCKLAND, This Day. Subject to the necessary legislative sanction, the trustees of the Auckland Savings Bank propose to assist to the extent of £32,000 tAvo schemes for the settlement of unemployed men and boys on the land.

At their monthly meeting yesterday, the trustees decided to donate, subject to certain conditions, £.10,000 towards a scheme at present being promoted by Mr D. Y. Bryant, of Hamilton, and other practical farmers, for the settlement of unemployed men on the land. Among the conditions is one that before the bank donates anything, Mr Bryant’s organisation shall be properly instituted, and shall have raised from the public at least £IO,OOO by way of gifts. The trustees consider that the question of providing suitable employment for unemployed boys is of vital importance, and they propose to make available £IIOOO towards the. acquisition of a suitable block of land, and to expend thereon, say, during live years, a sum not exceeding £120,000 for the development of this land and the training and settling on it of a number of boys of a suitable type. Arrangements have been made for this scheme to be supervised by a com potent organisation, which will -act in conjunction with a management committee appointed by the bank.

A decision was reached also hi donate £2OO to the Mayor’s Unemployment Fund, subject, as in the foregoing cases, to ,statutory authority being obtained.