CLOTHING FOR EUROPE

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24624, 21 July 1945, Page 8

CLOTHING FOR EUROPE

SCHOOLS TO HELP CRITICISM BY BOARD MEMBERS The Canterbury Education Board, at its meeting yesterday gave its “hearty approval and co-operation” to a proposal by the Education Department to use the services of school children in the collection of clothing for the people of devastated Europe, but at least one individual member showed he was not completely in sympathy with the proposal. Mr F. L. Turley said that when it was remembered that millions of our people had been slaughtered in Europe and that one read of the "heads” still living in luxury hotels in Luxemburg, he was not particularly interested in what happened to people who tolerated that sort of thing. Mr W. P. Spencer agreed that there was something in what Mr Turley said. The “heads” could probably supply quite a lot of what the people of Europe needed, "To my mind this action is the very one that is going to prevent war in the future,” replied Mr C. S. Thompson, chairman of the board. “It is going to create a fellow-feeling among , the nations and you cannot stop wars until you get that fellow-feeling.” The senior inspector (Mr H. D. Prichard) pointed out that some of the devastated lands for whose people the clothing was wanted were our Allies. The board did not approve of the department’s suggestion to declare a halfholiday on August 3 for the collection of clothes but decided-to extend the organisation over the whole of that week. A conference with the headmasters will be held to arrange the details. Board members were authorised to make similar arrangements in the various towns of the board’s district.