"PROSPERITY WEEK"

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21505, 31 May 1933, Page 13

"PROSPERITY WEEK"

AUCKLAND PROPOSAL ALLEVIATION OF DISTRESS CAMPAIGN FOR FUNDS Some details of the proposal to inaugurate a campaign to raise funds for the relief of distress in Auckland, with the main feature a "Prosperity Week" some time in August, were given by the Mayor, Mr. G. W. Hutchison, at a meeting of the Auckland Metropolitan Unemployment Relief Committee yesterday. Mr. Hutchison said Mr. Donald McDonald, who organised the highlysuccessful Happiness Week in Wellington recently, as the result of which the Wellington Mayor's fund received considerable benefit, had expressed a willingness to conduct a similar campaign in Auckland. If the proposal were adopted it would bo an official effort, and there was already the promise of considerable support. The gross takings would pass through the hands of the city .treasurer and a committee of trustees would bo set up. The proposal made by the Mayor was that the Relief Committee should adopt tho proposal and tho various social organisations should receive assistance from the fund, as well as the Plunket Society, the St. John Ambulance nursing staff and others to bo chosen. Ono of the main features of tho week would bo a queen contest with girls representing various sections of tho community competing for tho role of Queen of Prosperity Week. By charging one penny for each vote and by organising numerous competitions and concerts, a large sum could bo raised, tho whole effort culminating in a monster ball in the Town Hall. On tho present proposal the campaign would bo launched about Juno 10.

The committee expressed its approval of tho scheme and a committee consisting of the Mayors of Auckland, Mount Albert and Mount Eden and the president of the Social Workers' Association was set up to confer with the organiser. GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S FUND LOCAL CONTRIBUTIONS Those who wish to contribute to the winter relief fund of the GovernorGeneral, Lord Bledisloe, can make their donations to the Auckland Metropolitan Unemployment Relief Committee. The position was explained yesterday by the Mayor, Mr. G. W. Hutchison. Mr. Hutchison said Sir Cecil Day had informed him that His Excellency had authorised him to say it would bo in keeping with tho appeal made by Their Excellencies for funds for the alleviation of unemployment distress, if those who were willing to contribute but preferred to make their donations direct to local funds were to send cheques or gifts of produce to tho Metropolitan Relief Committee. In view of this cheques should bo sent to tho town clerk, Mr. J. S. Brigham, honorary secretary of the committee, while gifts of produce could bo sent to tho committee's depot in Lower Hobson Street. Country gifts of produce could be consigned to the to\vn clerk.