GENEROUS COUNCILLORS.
LAMBS FOR UNEMPLOYED. AN' APPEAL TO FARMERS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WANGANUI, Friday. Mr. Duncan Mackintosh, chairman of the Wanganui County Council, at a meeting to-day -suggested that eaoh councillor give a fat lamb to be dis- , tributed among the unemployed work- I ers in the county for Christmas. At the same time he made an appeal for farmers to follow the lead. . j "We have had a lift In wool we never expected,” said Air. Mackintosh, “and I would be very sorry to think that some of the unemployed workers and their families were going short for a Christmas dinner.” Some councillors promised three to four lambs, and decided to send an appeal to all sheep farmers in the county to send in a lamb each.
“We are now doing better than the unemployed relief workers,” said Mr. Alackintosh.
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Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19125, 9 December 1933, Page 4
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