SAVE CHILDREN FUND

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29734, 30 January 1962, Page 2

SAVE CHILDREN FUND

Money Needed To Sustain Work There has never been a year when more mcney wa< needed to sustain the increasing international work of the Save the Children Fund, according to Miss M G. Havelaar, president of the North Canterbury branch oi the fund. At the first meeting of the year, held recently. Miss Havelaar reported that of the £21,000 collected to date in the current New Zealand Rice Bowl appeal Canterbury had contributed £3OOO More was being received, she said. Reports from the fund’s branches in Europe said severe winter conditions throughout the Continent were bringing much misery and sickness to countless destitute children, she said. The fund's headquarters had asked for gifts of warm clothing to be forwarded tc orphan children in Korea There were 45.000 such children in Korea at present said Miss Havelaar. Headquarters had thanked the branch for two donations of £lOO each sent to Greece and Vietnam, and for help given in Korea.