AN ORIGINAL SUGGESTION

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 6872, 16 July 1909, Page 7

AN ORIGINAL SUGGESTION

(lb the Editor "N.Z. Times.") Sir, —As the general public are not rushing to empty their pockets of their surplus cash for the benefit of the fund to assist the unemployed, perhaps you will permit me to suggest a scheme, which might bo the means of augmenting that fund very considerably, and in which a very considerable proportion of the population could very materially asist. There are very few householders who have not something in their possession for which they have no further use; it may be a cradle or a go-cart, or some article of furniture procured in early days and later on superseded by something better, and the former consigned to the lumberroom. ....

My suggestion is that the public be invited to send ail such articles to a place to be appointed, that anything will be received, from a piano to a wheelbarrow, from a needle to an anchor, watches, jewellery, books, pictures; etc., etc., and when a decent collection has been made, the whole placed in the hands of an auctioneer (who will, of course, give his services gratis), to be disposed of, and I have no doubt a considerable sum would be realised, for although the donor does not expect to have further use for his go-cart or cradle, there are others who are just ou the look-out for such articles, and so with other things. While there may be an article for which there is keen competition, which some philanthropic individual may purchase, pay for, and hand it back to be re-sold.—l am, etc., OBADIAH. July 13th. r