SCOUTS TO HELP.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 804, 3 July 1933, Page 7

SCOUTS TO HELP.

Tea and Soup Supply for Women. BUILDING WANTED. As soon as a suitable building is found, the Rover Scouts of Christchurch will open a rest-room in "the city to supply soup and tea to women and children. Mr J. W. Crampton this morning sought some assistance from the Citizens’ Unemployment Relief Committee in the way of finding a suitable building. Mr Crampton said he wished to make it known that there was soup available at Knight's butcher's shop. Up to 40 gallons could be supplied, but only eight gallons had been applied for so far. “ And while I am on this subject, I would like to say that the Rover Scouts have formed a committee with a philant* opic aim and are doing their best 1<« relieve distress,” Mr Crampton addel. He went on to say that the scouts wanted to establish a community restroom, open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily, where women and girls could call in for a bowl of soup or a cup of tea without being branded as paupers, as they would be by calling at a soup kitchen. There had been cases where women had had to cadge for food, and that should not be. The scouts had everything ready except a suitable building. They could get the oversupply of soup from Knight’s and the country scouts would send in vegetables. The scouts were asking for suitable premises in which to establish this rest-room. Mr R. T. Bailey: What about one of the tram shelters? Mr J. W. Beanland said that the whole of the women’s rest-room in the Square was let, but there was the building in Tuam Street which had recently been vacated by the Central Relief Depot. The chairman (Mr E. H. Andrews'* said he thought the scouts could find a building just as well as the committee could. Mr Bailey: What about borrowing some pie-carts? Mr George Harper suggested an application for use of a room at the Normal School. Mr G. Maginness said the scouts were on the right track and the committee should assist them. Mr Crampton assured the committee that there was real need for such a rest-room, and thanked Mr Harper for his suggestion.