RELIEF IN BRITAIN

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 284, 1 December 1941, Page 8

RELIEF IN BRITAIN

£2000 GIFT FROM N2. BOY SCOUTS APPRECIATIVE (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Sunday. The imperial headquarters of the Boy Scouts' Association, London, has written to the National Patriotic Fund Board expressing thanks and appreciation for a gift of £2000 from the people of New Zealand. This sum was allocated to the association from £100,000 sent to Britain this year for the relief of distress. The letter explains that the money has been placed to the credit of the association's war distress scouts' fund, established at the outbreak of the war to help scouts at home and abroad who suffer from enemy action. The fund had been a great nelp. Many scouts had reached Lritam from countries which had been over-run, and the association had given assistance to enable them to start their scouting again. . ' -^ s regards our own boys," the letter continues, "the heavy bombardment when so many of our cities and towns have suffered has resulted in the loss of a large number of headquarters, much gear and equipment, uniforms and private effects. Here again we have been able to give much-needed help. We have also devoted considerable sums to getting boys away from badlv blitzed areas and giving them a week j or fortnight s holiday in rest camps, iso as to refresh them for anything | that may lie ahead."