ROTARY CLUB TO AID CITY POOR.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18640, 18 December 1928, Page 15

ROTARY CLUB TO AID CITY POOR.

WILL PROVIDE CHEER FOR FESTIVE SEASON. With the co-operation of the public of Christchurch the Rotary Club, as in past years, intends helping several Christchurch families to spend a bright and happy Christmas, families which owing to their straitened circumstances, would have a sad time during this season of festivity. The concert in the Hospital grounds on Sunday afternoon, given fine weather, promises to be one of the most attractive outdoor functions of the year. The combined musical talent of the city will contribute very largely in realising this desired object. The massed bands will play selections and the massed choirs will give choruses from the great oratorio “ The Messiah,” and will lead in the community singing of Christmas carols. In addition to a musical treat of a most attractive character, an opportunity will be given the public to go over, and get interested in the lovely grounds attached to the Christchurch Hospital and to gain some insight into the great humanitarian work carried on in the Hospital itself. The concert will discharge a double function. It is intended primarily to delight the patients and the nursing staff, and secondly, to augment the funds of the Rotary Club to be devoted to brightening the lives of many hard-up families by providing them with the wherewithal to make this Christmas a real merry one. It is hoped that there will be a numerous and representative attendance of visitors from the country districts to participate in the good work of the Rotary Club, and in the enjojment of a rare musical treat. There is ample parking place for cars in Antigua and Tuam Streets, on the Riccarton Road and Hagley Avenue. The* concert is to begin at 3 p.m., and the public will be admitted to the Hospital grounds in Oxford Terrace, almost opposite St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church. The lists which have been supplied to the club by various social workers in and about "the city have been gone through and carefully analysed. y>ith the result that two hundred families have been selected to receive parcels on Christmas Eve. In addition to the parcels each family will have bread delivered, and will receive meat tickets, which will be posted on Thursday night so that meat can be got on Friday, Saturday or Monday. In addition to the distribution of Christmas cheer, the club, as in the past, will distribute a bright, new shilling to each child in the Christchurch and Timaru Orphanages. The sum of £55 is required for this purpose. The band concert on Sunday will not be the onlv occasion upon which the public will have an opportunity to contribute towards objects so worthy. Next Monday, by permission of the municipal authorities, a street, collection will be taken up in Cathedral Square and at the following corners: c2ok and Ross’s, Ballantynes and Bennington's. To ail who subscribe a badge will be issued.