GENEROUS BENEFACTOR

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19136, 3 October 1936, Page 4

GENEROUS BENEFACTOR

NAPIER RESIDENT LARGE SUM TO CHARITY At a conservative estimate, between £30,000 and £40,000 has been contributed by Mr. Gerhard Husheer, Napier, to charitable objects during the five years of the depression, according to Mr. G. B. Young, chairman of the Napier Social Service Committee. Mr. Young said on Thursday that the committee had made available between £IO,OOO and £12,000 in goods of various descriptions in the past five years. “This has been made possible, by the constant generosity of Mr. Gerhard Husheer,” Mr. Young said. “Mr. Husheer hasi been giving between £6OOO and £SOOO to charitable objects every year for about five years while conditions of depression have been prevalent. “There is no other man in the Southern Hemisphere whose beneficence and practical generosity has even approached that mark,” he added. “I question very much indeed if there Is another man in this Dominion who gives £6OO or £BOO a year to charity. I have never known Mr. Husheer to refuse to give, and give generously, for a single case of genuino distress or need.”