FOR THE ORPHANS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 78, 1 April 1922, Page 11

FOR THE ORPHANS.

ANOTHER £7,000 WANTED. Those who are in charge, of the campaign for raising £25,000 for the eight Protestant orphanages in Auckland have succeeded in gathering in £18,000, and ai strenuous effort is to be made to raise | the remaining £7.000 'before the end of | Easter week, April 22. While many j peogle have given liberally, the campaign committee ,feele that many people who are aWe to give, and whose duty is ob■viously to help this worthy cause, have not yet realised that duty. No one I doubts for a moment the nohln work I that is being done in these splendidly managed homes, hut it is generally the ■way with voluntarily supported institutions—the public often forgets that it h actually beinjr saved a large amount in rates that would otherwise he necessary. And it is too often the willing horse that ie left to do all the pullin?. It ie fplt by the committee that the £20.0nn aipipfl at is well within the paDaritv of thp pponie nf Auck T nn r l. should t''l<c an interest in the good work of the homes.