"SIMPLY SICKENING."

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14250, 22 December 1909, Page 9

"SIMPLY SICKENING."

■"!* * •: * ■:^I :: . .• /- ■"'» ; "It •': is > simply -; sickening" was a remark. made during a discussion at a meeting oi Napier retailers on Friday: They apparently f object vto being ,1 asked for»; contribu- d tions to . churches, bazaars, ; etc. (writes the ; Dominion's correspondent).- A member said; ; p| l " It has been my pet; grievance Ifor, years, ■; They come - day after day. , Churches, ba-;'!\ zaars, and: one; thing and another, are continually ;on the warpath,; and. we might de- -i ' t . vise , some ■. scheme to (prevent' it." \ • After characterising j? the v practice , as -i an v annoy- >^ : ance, - another retailer remarked ; that 1 they t'ri should institute a donation fund, '/each ■ firm£'| to. contribute in accordance with the size of the business, and refer all applicants to the secretary or chairman; . " It: is get- 1 jg ting atrocious,"; another, speaker v said. ; "If ,we stick together, whatis to stop ?us If" • " The individual teachers of the - school 1 have • started •' now," interjected a member.!,, "We 11| will; have the Easter offering •*alongf soon," commented someone else lugubriously.M Fin-.: ally, ,it was decided that a special ; meeting of the committee should) be held after the j New Year to go into the matter, v and re*p : > port to * a'meeting of the association. • • ■