APPEAL FOR REFUGEES

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28921, 15 June 1959, Page 10

APPEAL FOR REFUGEES

Good Response In City

Although donations in the house-to-house World Refugee Year appeal conducted by C.0.R.5.0. on Saturday will not be available for the Christchurch district for some days, there is every indication that a very generous response was given to the appeal by the public, according to the C.0.R.5.0. organiser for the northern part of the South Island (Mr G. H. V. Coley) last evening. He said progress totals from many other smaller centres m his district, from the Rakaia river north, showed an excellent response. Returns have still to come to hand from some other centres outside Christchurch where collections were made on Saturday. Nearly 3000 collectors covered the whole of Christchurch and outlying suburbs in the largescale appeal on Saturday morning. They comprised youth groups from Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, and Congregational churches, and Churches of Christ, and pupils of Roman Catholic secondary schools. Members of the Rotary Club assisted with cars in the collection in the outer suburbs. Collections will be made in country districts during the next two or three weeks through the help of women’s organisations or country schools. Progress totals to hand so far in the appeal are:—Nelson city and Stoke, £2196; Motueka, £256: Richmond, £253; Blenheim. £900; Picton. £200; Westport, £212; Grey mouth, £500; Hokitika, £268; Rangiora, £400; Kaiapoi, £167; Lyttelton, £80; Akaroa, £55; Leeston, £6l; Cheviot, £l3O. More than £15,000 was collected by 4000 voluntary workers in metropolitan Auckland, according to the Press Association In Wellington and the Hutt Valley £10,130 was given Returns from other centres are: Wanganui £l7OO, Palmerston North £2500, Dunedin £5OOO.

DISTURBANCES AT LYTTELTON

Six Men Arrested

Six men will appear in the Lyttelton Magistrate’s Court this morning on charges of fighting and inciting lawlessness after two disturbances in Lyttelton on Saturday evening. Some of the men were held in custody in the cells at the Lyttelton Police Station.

The first disturbance occurred about 6.15 p.m. in Oxford street outside the British Hotel. Three men were arrested by Sergeant J. E. O’Regan and Constable G R. Cook, who also arrested another three men at the second fracas outside a milkbar in London street about 8.15 p.m. There were large crowds present at both incidences. Some of those involved suffered superficial injuries.