HERITAGE APPEAL COMMENDED
MR C. H. UPHAM PRAISES WORK “Among returned servicemen Heritage is a most worthy cause," said Mr C. H. Upham, V.C. and bar, in commending the cause of Heritage to members of the Christchurch Returned Services’ Association Tin Hat Club. "It is a more worthy cause than war memorials and things like that.” (Hear, hear.) Mr Upham, who was chairman for the evening, said that Heritage was looking after about 2000 children of deceased servicemen of the New Zealand, Australian and British forces. “We have only to get another 1000 members in Canterbury—it only costs you £1 a year for 10 years and our work will be finished by then. We want to get it all in by Anzac Day,” he added.
This was "not just another, charity”; when returned servicemen thought of fallen comrades and a man’s name came to mind “you should think that that bloke might have been married and had a couple of kids. Heritage does help those people.” To assist this movement should be a task which returned servicemen would take on with pride, said Mr Upham.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27639, 21 April 1955, Page 7
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185HERITAGE APPEAL COMMENDED Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27639, 21 April 1955, Page 7
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