FREEDOM FROM HUNGER

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29829, 23 May 1962, Page 6

FREEDOM FROM HUNGER

Arrangements For Appeal Preparations are being made for the Canterbury section of C.0.R8.0.’s biggest public appeal, which will be made on June 16 for the freedom-from-hunger campaign. The Dominion target of £500,000 is more than twice the amount raided in any previous year. Last year C.0.R.5.0. raised £160,000. The freedom-from-hunger campaign was launched by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations. Appeals are being made in 40 countries. The appeal in Canterbury, Marlborough and Westland is being organised in Christchurch and preparations up until now have been mainly for the collections in country districts. These would begin on June 16 and would continue for two or three weeks, said Mrs J. Ritchie, the assistant organiser for C.0.R.5.0. in Christchurch, yesterday. The organisers are visiting 146 centres, meeting representatives of the organisations which will do most of the collecting, the Country Women’s Institute, and the Women’s Division of Federated Farmers, as well as seeing the headmasters of country schools. In some areas appeal committees' had been set up, and some organisations had undertaken special fundraising projects, said Mrs Ritchie. Preparations for the house-to-house collection in Christchurch included the labelling of some 3000 collection tins, she said. Several interdenominational meetings had been arranged by church groups in connexion with the campaign.

The next will be a meeting of Sumner church groups in the Catholic parish hall at 8.15 p.m. on Sunday. A C.0.R.5.0. film will ba screened and the Rev. C. R. Sprackett and Mr G. H. Coley, the C.0.R.5.0. organiser in Christchurch, will speak on the appeal.