AID TO CHILDREN OVERSEAS

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27670, 28 May 1955, Page 2

AID TO CHILDREN OVERSEAS

WORK OF CHRISTCHURCH COMMITTEE

Good progress with the knitting and sewing of peggy squares for quilts to be sent to distressed countries was reported at the monthly meeting of the Christchurch committee of the Save the Children Fund yesterday. Miss Havelaar, the chairman, expressed thanks specially to several blind persons who are assisting with the project. She appealed for more knitters to enable the committee to forward the quilts by September so that they would reach the countries before the winter. Members discussed a plan to endow a bed in the name of the Canterbury Save the Children Fund in the Hermagor. Hospital, Austria. The hospital, which is a Save the Children enterprise, expects to be opened in October, for the treatment of children suffering from bone tuberculosis and poliomyelitis. Several contributions to the appeal for the Yelief of distress in Greece were acknowledged. Mrs W. F. Willcox reported that four cases of goods had been sent to Greece, and six cases were awaiting shipment. Sponsors were urgently needed for a Greek girl, aged 13, who was crippled in the hands and feet with arthritis, and an Austrian girl, aged 23, suffering from poliomyelitis, who was living in a home for the aged, Miss Havelaar said. Twenty-five Austrian children suffering from poliomyelitis, 25 Greek, and 12 French children also needed sponsors, she added.