UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 140, 16 June 1931, Page 6

UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF

i LOCAL ORGANISATION A SCHEME PROPOUNDED. Details of a scheme for Wanganui to meet its own unemployment distress problem were outlined to a meeting . called yesterday by the Women’s Auxiliary of tho Y.AI.C.A. snd Women’s Division of the Farmers’ by Mr H. C. Jenkins. Tho Rev. Cox presided. The meeting endorsed the scheme as a suggestion \ hich is to be 1 placed be.ore the Wanganui Unem- ' polyment Committee, showing what the meeting ould undertake. Outlining his proposals, Air Jenkins said that he understood that the i lea in the mind of the meeting was ( organise a collection of pounds or quantities of provisi s or materials. He suggested thirteen districts for the city, each district to be under the control of a local committee which would work in the raising of food or materials. There were 600 families to provide for in the city, and of those 150 with three of more children, and i‘Bs families with a wife and two children dependant on the man. There would have to be a parcelling committee to arrange for the contents of the different parcels—so niUGZ for a family having two children and so much for a family with three children and so on. The Labour Department had offered to assist, so that a check could be kept on the actual family of the applicant, and then the organisa tion could arrange its own record of the amount of relief to be received by any family. There w s a great need for children’s clothing and for boots and trousers, particularly for the single unemployed men. They had been living on 18s weekly for three weeks in four, and their wardrobe had been necessairly depleted. With the first appeal for clothing the committees for the different districts could register the different houses where clothing might be available at a later date. The speaker suggested that the Rotary Club, Automobile Club and and the Savage Club should be . for for the provision of cars for tho collection of donations. Area Committees. The following area committees were elected: No. 1, Castlecliff: Left for Mrs Armstrong to organise. No. 2, Alma Road and Springvale Road; No appointment. Ao. 3, Alma Road to River: Mrs Michie and Airs Suinmerell. No. 4, Carlton Avenue to Victoria Avenue: Airs Johnson, Mrs Hutchens, and Mrs Siddells. No. 5, St. John’s Hill: Airs AfacAlillan, Mrs Dickie and Airs McDougall. No. 6, N. Glasgow Street Aranioho Station: Airs Ellis and Airs Simpson. No. 7, S. Glasgow Street to Dublin Street: Airs Hare, Mrs Calders and Airs Slater. No. 8, Dublin Street to Guyton Street: Airs Cox, Airs Bond and Miss Parsons. No. 9, Guyton Street to River: Airs Lilburne, Airs Austin. No. 10, Durie Hill: Fed Cross Society, Airs Alarshall. No. 11, Shakespeare Road to Jones Street: Airs J. J. Scott. No. 12, Jones Street to Eastown Road; Airs J. J. Scott. No. 13, Aramoho: Mrs Soundy and Mr Al artin. The committee to decide the schedules of parcels contents for tho various sized families: Airs Hare, Airs Dexter, Airs Siddells, Mrs Wickham. 'The committee to attend the meeting of organisations convened by his Worship the Alayor: Airs McDougall, Mrs Hare, Alr s Siddells and Airs Marshall. The Rev. Air Cox intimated that ho would be present at the Mayor’s meeting and sponsor the committee, and at that meeting Air Jenkins would be called on to outline the work which the ladies present were willing to undertake, so that tho effort now being planned could be co-ordinated in tho large scheme. Mrs Bassett moved and Mrs Bond seconded, thi.t the Rotary Club, the Savage Club and the Automobile Association, be asked to assist in providing motor cars for the collection of clothes when the effort is undertaken. Red Cross and Toe H. lhe Wanganui Red Cross Society, in conjunction with the Toe H,-has already been organising for tho relief of the unemployed. A progr mine of some magnitude had been worked out and practically put into operation. Ihis scheme, however, is now being merged into the larger plan outlined yesterday al the Y.AI.C.A. meeting. To maintain tho comprehensive effort of these two organisations they have accepted the responsibility of organising the Durie Hill area. ACTION IN CHRISTCHURCH I Per Press Asseclation.) CHRISTCHURCH. June 15. A means of meeting the situation created by the suspension of the Unemployment Board’» No 5 Scheme, was discussed by the Christchurch Citv Council to-night. W hile protesting to the Government that the scheme must be renewed immediately or some substitute provided, the council decided to call a meeting of representatives of all local bodm concerned in the operation of the scheme, and to delegate power nf action to the combined works and finance committees. It was mentioned in (he course of the discussion that the Canterbury Hospital Board is already spending at the rate of £36,000 a year in relief of distress. although the provision or lhe estimates for this purpose »s only £2O 000-