FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 58, 9 March 1935, Page 8

FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN.

It is a noble gift that Mr. and Mrs. "W. It. Wilson have made to the movement for helping crippled children. As the Mayor and Lord Nuffield said in their comments yesterday, it is not only the intrinsic value of "St. Leonards" that will impress the public, but the fact thaf this gift entails the surrender of a beautiful home lived in for many years. Most Auckland citizens' know or know of "St. Leonards," and it does not require much imagination to conceive what it has meant to Mr. and Mrs. Wilson. They have now handed over one of the finest homes in Auckland — magnificently sited by the sea and standing in spacious grounds—for the use of crippled children. It is a condition that an endowment should be created, and Lord Nuffield has immediately responded by giving an additional £10,000 for that purpose. With'these two shining examples before them, the people of New Zealand should find no difficulty in raising not only sufficient money for this particular endowment, but what is required for a national campaign to give all crippled children the help they need. The case for these children was wisely and eloquently expressed in our : columns on Thursday by Miss Gloria I Rawlinson, the young Auckland poet, who is herself a conspicuous example of the ability of the mind to rise superior to bodily infirmity. These needs are now known; a magnificent beginning of raising the necessary funds has been made; and what is now required is the completion of the f'uiancial provision and the organisation of relief measures throughput the country. .