The Examiner Newspaper:-Thursday 26 May 1938
MISSION HELPED BY DOLE-WORKER
Mayor Opens Invermay Soup Kitchen
How a dole worker voluntarily performed long hours each week to help the City Mission was told yesterday by the Mayor (Mr. A. E. Wyett), when he was opening the mission's soup kitchen at Dunning-street, Invermay.
The relief worker (Mr. C. A. Tapp) was seconded to the mission for 26 hours a week, Mr. Wyett said, but he worked anything up to 70 hours. Five days a week he attended the Dunning street depot at 6 o'clock in the morning to light the fire and prepare porridge for the children. He was there until 6 o'clock at night.
Mrs. Tapp, Mr. Wyett added, also worked voluntarily on behalf of the mission. They were wonderful workers, and deserved great credit.
About 200 children were served with soup yesterday at a cost to the mission of about under £1 a head. Butchers give the meat for the soup. but the mission has to find each week two sacks each of carrots, parsnips, and swedes, half a hundredweight of -barley and peas, a sack of potatoes, and 92 loaves of bread.
Yet the cost for a day's supply of soup is slightly under £1. The children are served at long tables in a bright, warm hall.
In opening the kitchen, the Mayor stressed the valuable work that the mission was doing in all parts of the city. Citizens. he said, fully appreciated its worth, particularly in feeding under-nourished children.
Rev. A. R. Gardner and Mr. J. F.Ockerby, M.H.A., also spoke. The workers responsible for the soup kitchen, besides the City Missionary (Mr. A. Menzies). are Mrs. Menzies, and Mrs. Tapp, and Mrs. R.Thompson.