Picnic for the Aged.— Residents of Nazareth House were taken to Waikuku beach for a picnic by the Canterbury Licensed Victuallers’ Association yesterday. More than 50 men and women enjoyed the outing this year. On March 7 the residents of the Jubilee Home will be entertained. Engineers’ Fund Established.—A gift of £5OO. to be held in trust as the basis of a fund to encourage the advance of engineering, was received from Mr F. W. Furkert (Wellington) at the annual conference of the New Zealand Institution of Engineers in Auckland yesterday. The fund will we used to assist in the establishment of awards for research.—(P.A.) - An opportunity to next-of-kin of airmen buried in the Netherlands to meet the Netherlands Minister to New Zealand (Mr J. B. Pennink) will be given at Christchurch next month. “We feel it might be a small consolation to the parents of these bravp young men to know of the way in which the people of the Netherlands honour their memory by tending their graves.” said Mr Pennink in a letter to the ( hristchurch branch of the Returned Services’ Association.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25736, 23 February 1949, Page 2
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