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STILL DOING GOOD WORK.

Some weeks ago a paragraph appeared in the Stah setting forth the adventures of .Mr Theodore Rigg, son of Air -John Rigg, of Wellington, a leader of the Society of Friends in New Zealand. Young Air Rigg was a student in .science in England when the war happened, and he immediately undertook work, under the direction of I he Quakers of England, in helping the stricken peasantry of France in returning to their agricultural pursuits. This instructional work he carried out just behind the firing lines for a year. Then he was sent, upon a similar mission to Serbia. Rut the invader (hove Britishers ami Serbs out, and the New Zealander landed at Alarseitlos with 1200 refugees. Wo now learn that Mr Rigg. after seeing these refugees clothed and taken in hand by the French, applied for work- amongst tho Polish refugees in Russia. lie and other Friends from England are now working in the vicinity of Moscow, encouraging the Poles, who have .suffered great privations and distress, to work back to the belief that there is a silver lining even to the war-clouds.

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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2957, 31 May 1916, Page 2

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STILL DOING GOOD WORK. Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2957, 31 May 1916, Page 2

STILL DOING GOOD WORK. Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2957, 31 May 1916, Page 2