U.N. CHILDREN’S FUND

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26854, 6 October 1952, Page 8

U.N. CHILDREN’S FUND

N.Z. CONTRIBUTIONS PRAISED VALUE OF SMALL GIFTS EMPHASISED (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, October 4. New Zealand, on a population basis, ranks second only to Iceland in its contributions to the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund. This was stated in a letter received today by Mr J. T. Martin, chairman of the New Zealand appeal for the fund, from the fund’s executive director in New York, Mr Maurice Pate. “Two years ago, when New Zealand had its last United Nations Appeal for Children, £227,344 was raised for U.N.1.C.E.F., and this remains the largest sum raised by any national campaign for private contributions since 1948,” said Mr Pate. “It was the product, not of large gifts, but of great numbers of small nnes, and it was proof of the great generosity and concern of the people of New Zealand for the children of the world. “These contributions of time, money and effort made by everyone —even the school children of the nation, who worked imaginatively and hard-set a fine example. In private contributions. New Zealand has given more than £600.000 to U.N.1.C.E.F.” In India, Pakistan and Ceylon, U.N.I.C.E.F. had supplied enough D.D.T. to protect 5,000.000 people from malaria this year. Mr Pate said. An estimated 300 000,000 people suffered from the disease, and about 3.000.000 died each year. Mr Pate said U.N.I.C.E.F. had also enabled the Governments of 14 Southeast Asia countries and territories to begin national control campaigns against tuberculosis. With about 10,000,000 people in Indonesia facing permanent disability from yaws, U.N.I.C.E.F was provid'ns penr’illin, he said. and economically, under-developed countries were al«o assisted to set up health services for mothers and children.