HAWERA RELIEF SCHEME

Taranaki Daily News, 11 August 1932, Page 8

HAWERA RELIEF SCHEME

GIFT OF GROCERIES ORDERS. STAND-DOWN WEEK DISTRESS.

With the object of promoting a scheme whereby residents will contribute a small sum weekly for the purchase of necessities to tide unemployed men over their stand-down week, about 100 people attended a public meeting at Hawera last night. The Mayor (Mr.. E. A. Pacey) presided. Representatives were present from 22 organisations in the town, and over £35 was collected in the room as orders on different grocers. The Mayor explained that the meeting had been called at the request of the unemployment relief committee and the executive of Ipie self-help club. The unemployment position was certainly bad. During their stand-down week many men found difficulty in living. Help was urgently required. Rumours that. there was no distress and that the meeting was not warranted were refuted by Mr. J. E. Campbell. He gave the numbers of the men on different classes of relief work. Including dependents there were 858 people in Hawera living on the small amount drawn through relief work. On an average 50 men stood down each, week and nothing came into their homes during that period. The work received outside was almost negligible. “I know that business people of' all kinds have been hit by the depression, but I feel sure the majority of them will be willing to forego some little pleasure in order to provide some unemployed man with necessaries,” said Mr. Campbell. “The proposition, is that about 200 residents should permit the ordering of 2s. worth of groceries in their names for ten weeks by the committee, which will deal with the disposal. Flour, sugar, tea and butter are the items that-will be purchased. With, money , on hand the Unemployment committee has purchased 14 tons of potatoes, and these will be added to the parcels that will be handed to the ,men in need during their stand-down week. The size of a parcel will depend on the size of the family.” Mr. Campbell said the unemployed men of Hawera were not “squealers,” and he paid a tribute to their fine spirit. Adjutant H.' McKenzie endorsed Mr. Campbell’s remarks. He assured ' the meeting the need was great. The Rev. E.;S. Emmitt stressed that the idea of the meeting was not to overlap the work of other organisations, but to supplement such work. The appeal was for a community effort. He hoped that many other residents besides those at the meeting would help along the lines indicated. The abuses one heard of were confined to not more than 10 per cent, of the. men,, and it was unfair to commit the other 90 per cent, unheard. All the speakers quoted examples of necessitous , cases that had come before them as a result of stand-down week. After the public meeting the relief committee appointed the following executive: Mr. H. Morgan (chairman), Mrs. W. C. Fyfe (secretary), Mr. L. G. Pearce (assistant secretary), Mrs. A. E. Stevens, Messrs. W. C. Fyfe, J. B. Laurenson, W."g. Simpson, W. J. Bright, R. S. Allwright and W. Hawken, with power to add. SUDDEN DEATH AT HAWERA. i CYCLIST’S COLLAPSE ON ROAD While cycling to work from his home in Little Waihi Road, Mr. Ernest E. Wells, a'Hawera cycle shop proprietor, collapsed yesterday morning, and died ■before passers-by could reach him. Mr. Wells leaves a widow and a grown-up son and daughter. MINIATURE RIFLE CLUB. WAVERLEY WEEKLY SHOOT The weekly shoot of the Waverley Rifle Club was held on Tuesday night with a very enthusiastic attendance. Following are the scores: — A team: W. A. Dalrymple 59, R. Wilkins '57, A. Hunter' 1 57, A. Wallace 46, L. Duffy 61, J. Rodgers 56, R. McKee 57, W. McDonald 46, . P. Cunningham 66, G. Spratt 60, H. Boyer 61. B team: Wa'lkinton 47, A. Williams 63, F. Hunter 57, L. Walker 60, J. Johnston 58, W. Nealey 16, P. Wallace 63, W. Davis 60, S. Southern 48, N. Spratt 22. FORESTRY COMPETITION. AWARDS FOR NEW ZEALAND. -A The results of the annual competition inaugurated by the New Zealand Forestry League for school children’s collections of specimens of New Zealand native trees and shrubs, pressed and mounted and correctly named, have been announced. There are first and second prizes in senior and junior sections. There were 58 competitors this year, entries coming from as fwr as Invencargill in the South and North Auckland in the North. The first and second prize winners in each section receive cash prizes together with free copies for the year of the New Zealand Magazine. ' The highly commended competitors receive free copies for a year of the same journal. The competitors were allowed be assisted by adults in the naming of the plants. The results are as follow: — Senior (12 to 16 years): Dulcie Bartell (Turangarere, Main Trunk) 1, Phyllis Beesley (Otohiwa, Parua Bay) 2, David Watts (Hawera). Joyo. Trevethick (Wanganui), Edith Fitch (Wellington), Linda Kimbell (Maungawhau), and Bruce Deihl (Ngatura), all highly commended. Junior (under 12 years): Joyce Corkill (Wellington) 1, Elwyn Welch (Masterton) 2, Mary McMorran (Wellington), E. Chadwick (Taurangarere) and Norma Wilde (Okarito, Westland) highly commended. ADVERTISERS’ ANNOUNCEMENTS. At St. Patrick’s Hall, Manaia, to-night a farewell will be given to Mr. and Mrs. Alec McCracken, who are leaving after a long period of residence at Manaia to take up farming near Hamilton. The Eltham Legion of Frontiersmen will hold an “old-time” dance at Ngaere this evening. The popularity of the troop’s previous functions assures success again to-night. Smith and Trim advertise particulars of their mart sales for to-day in Nolan’s Buildings, Hawera. at 11 a.m. of a Ford coupe, window sashes, hedge plants and fruit, and at 1.30 p.m. of furniture, pots, plants, garden tools and sundries. A kitchen tea will be tendered Miss B. Wilson and Mr G. Bell in the Kapuni h.a.11 to-morrow evening.