The Budget To Bring Backbocks Boys And Girls To Auckland

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 286, 2 December 1936, Page 22

The Budget To Bring Backbocks Boys And Girls To Auckland

* Appeal For Funds To Help Give This Monsters Christmas Treat Nearly three weeks have passed by since Peter Pan and It seemed to Peter Pan and Wendy that no one in New Wendy announced their thrilling scheme for the Budget's Zealand so needed befriending as these lonely backblocks children. Christmas good deed, and since that date letters have arrived They thought how wonderful it would be to whisk them out of the from all over the country telling of its enthusiastic and sympathetic hard-working routine of their lives, to bring them down 200 miles reception, not only among Sunbeams, but also in the ranks of or more, and give them one glorious, memorable week in Auckland, grown-up readers. And so they announced their Christmas campaign! , J 936 has seen New Zealand facing with renewed hope and ONE SHILLING WILL GIVE ONE CHILD ONE light-heartedness a return to the prosperous days of several years ; — ago. Children are finding new and delightful little pleasures and HOUR I N AUCKLAND. luxuries added to their daily programmes—beach cottages and . motor tours, longed-for dreams of others years, will thi?" Christmas Everywhere the scheme has been received with the greatest actually come to pass. possible help and encouragement. The Prime Minister himself has That prosperity has returned to many is, of course, a fact: taken a personal interest in the idea and last week sent a message but that it has, alas, passed by the homes of numberless families is to young "Star" readers, the Minister of Railways has offered also unhappily true. welcome train concessions, the Education Board is co-operating in Peter Pan and : Wendy thought very long and very earnestly the selection of the children. Donations have been received from about the Budget's Christmas good deed. They thought of the 3r a ° W1 C " sick and %e poor, of the old people and the orphans, and the WE STILL REQUIRE £20. more they thought the more convinced were they that, in lesser or greater degree Would come to these people some measure of One shilling will give one child one hour in Auckland, 10/ Christmas cheer. l But one section seemed overlooked. will cover a day's expenses; £3 10/ will entirely pay for a little For the child tof the backblocks farmer struggling to make child's holiday in the city. both ends mwt on .an isolated/; Northern farmlet—for such a one Commencing on Saturday next Sunshine clubs will be having there be .no Jfhristmas joy. Christmas Day would be just a week of special effort in an endeavour to" raise money for our another day, when cows' must be milked and the pigs fed, when fund. "Rose Parties," concerts, dips, lucky guesses, all sorts the hard, 'onely work of the farm must go on just as on the other of bright ideas will be in full swing and the result will mean joy "5 ;.£ays oFthe year. • and happiness for a band of country children from the North. , correspondence lessons or perhaps a tiny REMEMBER—The lucky boys and girls chosen to come backblocks school five or six miles away, no radio or telephone. to Auckland will be members of country families of the Far no bright city lights and gay shop windows, no cheery Santa Clau- North whose fathers have had a hard struggle on the land in the smiling broadly at the entrances to city stores. Only the lonely ' past few years. In ALL INSTANCES IT WILL BF hills and a cream wagon track that connected with the magic main THEIR FIRST HOLIDAY TO THE CITY WILL road leading to the big cities. YOU SEND EVEN ONE SHILLING?