CANADIAN POLITICS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17989, 16 July 1920, Page 5

CANADIAN POLITICS

THE NEW CABINIET. Press A'Seociation—By holograph—Copyright. OTTAWA, July 14. Mr Meighen has announced that his Cabinet contains all but two of Sir Robert Borden's Ministers. The new Ministers are Mr Wigmore (Customs and Internal Revenue) and Mr M'Curdy (Public Works). —A. and N.Z. Cable. *"1"J _L - "THE WEEK OF PITT." An aopeal for help to aid the millions of Children DYING OF STARVATION in Europe and Asia Minor. "GIVE OR WE PERISH." SECOND SUBSCRIPTION LIST Recording subscriptions of £5 and over given in Dunedin and suburbs:— Proceeds of organ recital by Mr W. Paget Gale, in Knox Church £60 16 5 Proceeds of sale of work at the Normal School 26 10 8 National Mortgage and Agency Company (Ltd.)\ ... 25 0 0 Reid" and Gray (Ltd.) 20 0 0 G. R. Hercus 20 0 0 D. Crawford 10 10 0 Mrs C. R. Chapman ... 10 10 0 Rev. A. M. Dalrymple and family 10 5 5 W. Emery 5 5 0 J. E. Butler (Ltd.) 5 5 0 T. Chalmer 5 0 0 G. A. Findlay and Co. (Ltd.) ... 5 0 0 CORRECTION. —The sum of £25 whioh was credited jn yesterday's list to Messrs A. S. Paterson and Co. was an error. This contribution was from Mrs A. S. Paterson. THE AMOUNT AIMED AT IS £10,000 FROM PROSPEROUS OTAGO. G. L. DENNISTON, Hon. Treasurer. P.O. Box 154, Dunedin. E. S. Wilson, Secretary, Empire Buildings, Prinecs street. Jas. Begg and J. Inglis Wright, Otago Joint Organisers. P.O. Box 72. Midday, July 15, 1920. —Advt. The latest news from Europe concerning the famine areas continues to be harrowin? in tho extreme. The prospect for the millions of children during the cold, bleak months of European winterstruggling with absolute starvation in surroundings in which disease and epidemics are rampant—is absolutely ghastly. "Of a total of three to four million children in Poland, 47 per cent, aro suffering from serious diseases. The number of orphans is estimated as being between 250,000 and 500,000, or, if not actually orphans, they have at any rate been separated from their parents in their flight be fore the enemy. The distress ia awful, and cases of death from starvation among children aro frequent." Mr James Begg set out yesterday morning on a toiir of Central Otago, from Waitahuna to Pembroke and Queen stown, thence to Balclutha, via Invoroargill. Ho will arrange for the setting up of committees _nt th" various centres, and will consult,' vrfth those already established. The aim of "£IO,OOO from Otago" cannot fail to commend itself to our friends resident throughout tho province. They will assuredly do their part.