BOOTS FOR ABERTILLERY SCHOOLCHILDREN
[To the Editor of TILE SPECTATOR.] Sus,—Whilst. realising that there is poverty in other Special Areas of the country, will you kindly allow me to point out the extraordinary conditions which continue to exist in the urban district of Abertillery and to appeal to those who can, to assist our Children's Boot Fund established in 1931 to provide footwear for necessitous school-children ?
As far back as 1921 it became necessary, owing to the industrial depression, to feed necessitous school-children and in recent years over 1,000,000 meals per annum were supplied. The Council is not empowered to provide boots for these children and a voluntary fund was opened in 1931 since when a suns of £2,300 has been raised and 8,845 pairs of boots distributed. The parents pay one-fourth of the cost of the footwear ; this condition being made by the Committee in order to. spread over the available number of boots to as large a number of children as possible.
The district is a Special Area and it was one of those visited by His Majesty The King during his tour of South Wales. His Majesty visited Abertillery on the 19th instant and saw the children at dinner at the Rhiw Pare Feeding Centre. .
Though I must admit that the calls made upon the public to subscribe in one form or another to objects of a charitable character are very many I feel sure that the appeal now submitted to you is such as to merit support.
Remittances should be made payable to the " Abertillery Children's Boot Fund Committee " and forwarded to Mr. D. R. Davies, Clerk of the Council (who is the Hon. Secretary to the Committee), Council Offices, Abertillery, who will acimowledge.tite same.
Thanking you for your kind consideration,—I am, yours faithfully, WILLIAM BEYNON, Chairman of the Urban District Council and
Chairman of the Chiklren's Boot Fund
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Committee.
,Co/{nail Offecs,:Ahertillery, Mon.
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