C.O.R.S.O. APPEAL FOR 1958

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28490, 21 January 1958, Page 7

C.O.R.S.O. APPEAL FOR 1958

Minimum Target Of £70,000

A minimum target of £70,000 was set for the 1958 C.0.R.5.0. appeal when more than 40 representatives of C.0.R.5.0. member bodies and local committees met recently at Wellington for their annual campaign conference. During C.0.R.5.0.’s 13 years and eight and a half months of existence, a total of £3,699,348 of money and goods, had been raised for relief work overseas, the dominion chairman (the Rev. J. Gilman Dunn) told the conference. This showed that the largescale voluntary work was not in vain.

At the moment, Mr Dunn said, C.0.R.5.0. comprised 35 church, social and welfare organisations united to co-ordinate their overseas relief, because they believed that by uniting they were able to work better and probably raise more money. By their continued close association both at dominion and local levels, C.0.R.5.0. could make better progress. Reports were heard from local committees, from Invercargill to Whangarei, and the dominion appeal date of May 3, 1958, was fixed. The conference opened with a talk by the Deputy Director-General of Health (Dr. H. B. Turbott) on his recent visits to Japan and Hong Kong, two areas which had received C.0.R.5.0. assistance.