DONATIONS TO CHARITY
LOCAL BODY'S POSITION DIVERSE OPINIONS (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, tins day. Considerable difference" of opinion was revealed when the Auckland Transport Hoard 10-day considered applications from charitable and other organisations for donations. Some members t brought that all applications should be declined until the board had ascertained its financial posi liifci: 'They suggested that' the board was, not paying l'fsway. • 'Other 'riieinljers. ijiclu(hnrr thr'fcrinci tliimnin. Mi 1 A. C. -Aliuin. ' -disagreed that the position was doubtful.
- A..request from the Swimming Association was declined, ami the board then Wirsideyed one i'vuj 11. thc Roys' lSinployment Committee. After discussing aspens of boy employment. 1 he hoard decided, by six voles Io lour, to give £lO.
The next, request, which was from the Crippled Children's Society, bad a most sympathetic reception. .Mr. .1. iSaycgb, who ha-d previously opposed snc'li donations, moved that tlio board should donate £25. Mr. ]■'/. d. Phelan, another Labor member, said that every trading concern ami every individual should put their hands in their pockets for such a. cause. The board also gave £lO to (he lbs charged Prisoners' Aid Society.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18760, 17 July 1935, Page 15
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184DONATIONS TO CHARITY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18760, 17 July 1935, Page 15
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