CORSO WORK IN GREECE
N.Z.’S GIFTS GO TO MOUNTAIN VILLAGE
The name of New Zealand—and something more substantial than the name—recently reached one of the most isolated settlements in Europe, when Mrs D. Bally of the Greek “Friends of the Villages” organisation. took a light truck up the high mountain on which Plagia is situated.
“This village of 185 families,” she writes in a letter to CORSO’s New Zealand headquarters, “although several times burned down during the war and deprived of almost all its male population, had never been taken care of before because it is so dangerous to reach. I wish I could describe the emotion of the people when they realised we had come there to help them and. even more, their childish and exuberant joy in seeing the quantity and quality of the gifts we had brought them. “They were all CORSO goods and we told the people so. Unable to write a thanking letter, they asked me to give “the good people of New Zealand’ their most heartfelt thanks and sincere gratitude.”
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27859, 6 January 1956, Page 11
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