COCOA FUND CONCERT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19291, 1 April 1926, Page 13

COCOA FUND CONCERT.

SELLING OF TICKETS. PERMISSION FOR OLDER BOYS. A request to the Auckland Education Board to reconsider its decision not to permit children of the city schools to sell tickets for a concert to raise funds to provido the children with hot cocoa daily, was made yesterday by a deputation from the City Schools Committee. ] The deputation stated that the committee admitted the advisability of the board's general rule, but it was desired that an exception should be made in this particular case. The hot cocoa was an inestimable benefit to the poorer children, and the committee could not carry on the work on the desired scale without more funds. The committee had made arrangements for the concert before the board's decision was known, and a deposit had been paid for the hire of the Town Hall Concert Chamber. In futuro years the coramittoe would make other arrangements for raising money. The cost of the cocoa this year would bo about £6O. Mr. A. Burns, chairman of the board, said that when the committee's request was first considered every member of the board was sympathetic, but they had a resolution against ll on the minute book, and he himself felt strongly on the matter. The selling of tickets made the children forward and bold in many cases, and a number of unpleasant incidents had also occurred. The board did not waut to deprive the children of their cocoa, and he himself would go so far as to suggest that the Government should sub•F,i(liso the work. After discussion it was decided on the motion of Mr.' H. S. W. King to permit boys from the fifth and sixth standards to sell tickets, the decision not to bo regarded as a precedent.