AID TO BRITAIN

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25300, 27 September 1947, Page 10

AID TO BRITAIN

MAYOR TO CALL DISTRICT CONFERENCE

A district conference on the lines of the recent national conference in Wellington to consider means of aiding Britain will be called soon by the Mayor (Mr E. H. Andrews). In a letter to the Mayor yesterday the chairman of the Aid to Britain National Council (Mr F. P. Walsh) said it had been decided to ask the t mayors of the principal cities and towns of the present famine emergency districts to convene conferences so that the scope of the present work could be extended.

Mr Andrews said he would call the conference at the earliest possible date, A list of organisations that would be asked to send representatives would be drawn up, and notices sent out im-

mediately. The conference would be held as soon as the organisations were able to appoint their representatives. In his letter, Mr Walsh said that as the Aid to Britain campaign was bein extended to cover dollar savings through voluntary savings of petrol and tobacco, and problems of increased production, a broadening of the basis of the existing Famine Emergency Committee was necessary. It appeared desirable to re-align the various district committees and extend the scope of their work so as to include other sections of the community. Mr Walsh added that the chairmen of famine emergency committees were being advised that arrangements had been made to release national savines organisers for a fortnight to assist with the initial organisation of the campaign.

“ TRUE TEAM SPIRIT NEEDED ” (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 26. The fact that a national drive for increased production to aid Britain ‘de--nended for its success on a chain effort throughout the whole community was emphasised to-day by the chairman of the Aid-for-Britain National Council, Mr F. P. Walsh. Primary producers were a basic link, and workers in every type of job associated closely or even distantly and indirectly with the primary industries were other links vital to the national economy, Mr Walsh said. Every useful worker was in the picture. and there was no justification for sectional statements. All production must go up, and the national council appealed for a true team spirit in the approach to production problems.