TWO-FOLD AID

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26777, 21 May 1948, Page 4

TWO-FOLD AID

MONEY AND 1 MORE GOODS HELP FOR NEEDY CHILDREN Employees of several city factories have elected -to work for three hours on two nights next week and give their overtime earnings to the United Nations .Children’s Appehl, and their employers have agreed that the profits made will also be handed to the fund. Announcing this last night, the chair - man of the Appeal Committee, Mr L. M. Wright, told the Daily Times that this was the most satisfactory way, in his opinion, for workers and employers to help the starving children of overseas’ countries. Not only were the workers giving the equivalent of nine hours work and contributing their profits, but production was actually being increased at a time when more goods were urgently needed. “ By producing more goods these men and women are helping their own country and providing goods that are either required here or could be purchased and sent to needy children overseas,” Mr Wright said. “ I hope that others will follow this excellent example. “ I feel sure,” he said, “ that if workers in other factories wish to follow this lead, their employers will co-operate. What a great step forward it would be if some of the larga factories manufacturing clothing, foodstuffs and other urgently needed supplies adopted this method of helping the children's appeal,” Mr Wright added. , „ , It was probably difficult for many workers to afford to give up a day’s pay for the appeal, Mr Wright said. Cost of living was high, and most workers required everything that was in their pay envelopes to maintain their standard of living. Many were making the sacrifice and helping the cause, he said, but those who felt they could not give a day’s pay would probably be willing to work an extra few hours and give their earnings to the appeal. The pupils,of the three secondary schools and the Technical College had given a lead to the older members of the community in contributing £6OO by their work. He hoped others in the community would also give generously of their time, energies and money. The children overseas needed all the help they could get, Mr Wright concluded. A decision to give a day’s pay to the United Nations Children’s Appeal has been made by the miners at Kaitangata and also by those at the Wangaloa open-cast mine