MANUREWA CHILDREN'S HOME

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 229, 27 September 1930, Page 9

MANUREWA CHILDREN'S HOME

REMARKABLE GROWTH.

REACHING ITS MAJORITY.

The 21st birthday of the Manurewa Children's Home will be commemorated on Octobcr 2!) next with a gift day celebration in the Baptist Tabernacle, to which friends are being invited to send gifts or contributions. Speakiug at the home's very successful annual concert, the new president, the Rev. A. J. Grigg, thanked the people and business men of Auckland for their generosity and sustained interest In the home. He said u-.e work was started 37 years ago with foui children. Since that date 549 childien had been admitted, of whom 68 were now in residence. The board depended upon the generosity of the public for £3000 per annum to maintain the worn. During the past three years tlio contn-1 butions had been more than £2000 short of requirements, and only the careful husbanding of resources entrusted to the board in earlier years had enabled it to carry on. The authorities were satished that as soon as the wave of depression passed the public would come more generously to the assistance of the home. Cash contributions could be sent to the treasurer, Mr. Tlios. E. Whittnr. Swanson Street, Auckland, and gifts of ci>".hing, provisions; etc., to the matron, Msnurewa.