CHARITABLE SOCIETY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 508, 10 November 1928, Page 18

CHARITABLE SOCIETY

SHOP ASSISTANTS’ UNION £758 RAISED FOR AUCKLAND POOR This year, by means of weekly dances, the sum of £758 has been raised by the Auckland Retail Shop Assistants’ Union Charity Club, against £ 600 raised last year. These sums have been devoted to social work in the city and have been of inestimable help to a number of deserving causes. The Rev. Jasper Calder's mission, Sister Esther’s work, the Ladies’ Benevolent Society, the Down and Out Mission, the Parnell Doss House and the’St. Vincent de Paul Society have all received assistance from the club, and the committee of 25,' which manages its affairs, has also sent gifts to many other needy cases. Great interest is also taken by the club In the happiness of children in orphanages, and the union has made itself responsible, for the last six years, for Christmas gifts and entertainments for them. Each of the 15 orphanages near Auckland Is visited by the entertainment party and the club expects to spend from £250 to £3OO this year on the children. In all this work the late Mr. J. H. Mortensen, the former secretary of the union, was very prominent and his loss will be felt in the future operations of the club. The final entertainment of this year will be a carnival dance night in Scots Hall, Symonds Street. on Mondayevening, when the hall will be decorated for a “Night in Chinatown.’’