RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30145, 31 May 1963, Page 17

RANDOM REMINDER

FRIENDS IN NEED

Children are like woollen singlets. They are familiar assets, sometimes irritating, but they have their place close to the heart, and they ward off life’s chills. Of all the forces which guide man’s faltering footsteps, love for his family is still the greatest. So it is that when there is time to rest from the hurrying and scurrying, when the clashing of commercial cymbals is briefly silent, there comes the renewed realisation that a home and a family mean so much more than anything else. So it is that the suffering of children hits home harder than .knowledge

of almost any other of the world’s many problems, possibly because it seems so unfair. New Zealanders usually respond readily to appeals for assistance to alleviate the suffering of children overseas. But there are New Zealand children who need help, too. There are many youngsters who are without the security of family life, who lack the affection of parents. For more than 50 years, the Cholmondeley Children’s Home at Governor's Bay has been conducted for children who have been ill, or disabled, or deserted, or these whose parents could not look after them. The disruption of the normal home life is a dreadful loss for

a child, but the voluntary workers who conduct the Cholmondeley Home, with a minimum Government subsidy, have been giving these youngsters security and affection. Today there is a street appeal to help the work of the Cholmondeley Home. No one with a conscience will deny its merits, no one with a spark of feeling for others will pass the boxes by. These children, and those who will come into the Cholmondeley Home in the years ahead, deserve and need the affection of the community to replace what they have lost. A ready response to the appeal would give it to them, in plain language.