NEW ZEALAND DINNERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 309, 30 December 1922, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND DINNERS.

FOR POOR CHILDREN. i CHURCH ARMY ACTIVITIKS. I (From Our Special I'urreiipoiidtni.i LONDON. Nov. i>4. j Financed liy contributions from New i i Zealand schoo] children and other friends , lin tlto Dominion, the Church Army U j ; arranging a New Zealand ( hriatmas din- j i nor for about 100(1 poor London children j 'in the (iuildhall. kindly leni for the <«•-1 ■ casion. Arrangements are b«>i rip- made by j the same society for New Zealand din- I nei> in several of the p.-uviurial town>. j Special fontriliiitions haw lieen soul j iby I'll" New Zealand local secretary or j •the Chnrrh Army -since MHO fnr (iiri>tnias ieMivitic*. Until lU2O llie money ; was spent in t'ne ordinary I'lui-tmas arJ railifementa of the society, but in 19-iO ! and 1(121 a series of New Zealand dinners war organist.l in various parts of London and the provinces. Nearly 3000 children benefited last year by tlie gift of the colonists. The bulk of the money is subc-ribed by New Zealand school I children though a larjre proportion of Mho amount subscribed r< , presents t'ne i proceeds of tin , >alt> of flppee* of the i black sheep, which a number of the j colonial fa liners send to the Church Army honorary secretary in New Zealand for sale on behalf of the Christmas dinner fund.