Appeal For Children’s Home

Press, Volume C, Issue 29502, 2 May 1961, Page 12

Appeal For Children’s Home

Each year Canterbury University’s capping week procession serves at least three purposes: to express student ebullience, to amuse the public, and to raise funds for a humanitarian cause. Tomorrow, when the 1961 procession is held, the students will collect money for the Cholmondeley Memorial Children’s Home at Governors Bay. This undenominational, privately - run institution, founded about 60 years ago, continues to provide a kindly refuge for children in need of temporary care away from their own homes. Although accommodation is not free, no child is refused admission because of the parents’ inability to pay the usual fees. Govsnumm sutaidMs and modest help from other charitable bodies are insufficient alone to maintain the home on as sound a financial footing as its administrators would wish; and recourse to public

generosity is the only way left to promote this useful community service. By their own gifts, residents of Christchurch and other areas where money will be collected tomorrow can endorse the students’ choice of the home as a worthy recipient of communal benevolence.