FREEDOM FROM HUNGER

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30426, 28 April 1964, Page 6

FREEDOM FROM HUNGER

C.0.R.5.0.’s Annual Appeal Preparations are now complete in Canterbury for its part in the nation-wide Freedom-from-Hunger appeal to be launched by C.0.R.5.0. on Saturday. C.0.R.5.0. hopes to cover every house in New Zealand, and raise £300,000. The goal set for three years is £lm, and in the last 2 years £700,000 has been raised. In Christchurch and Canterbury C.0.R.5.0. expects that 3000 collectors will help in the house-to-house collection. Members of churches of all denominations, independent collectors, and members of the Rotary Club to provide transport, will assist. In counrty districts, women’s institutes, young farmers’ clubs, and schools will take part. Already donations are coming in to C.0.R.5.0. headquarters in Christchurch at the rate of £4O to £5O a day. Campaigner On Bicycle A cyclist will arrive in Christchurch this morning to campaign for C.0.R.5.0.’s Freedom from Hunger appeal on Saturday. He is Mr A. G. Brooker, of Wellington, .who has travelled some 50,000 miles round New Zealand on his bicycle in the last six years. Usually, Mr Brooker, who is 53 years old, travels as an advocate for reform in psychiatric treatment, but for this trip his cycle is well adorned with Freedom from Hunger slogans in luminous tape, and pamphlets. On the carrier he carries a full-size rubbish tin with “Freedom from Hunger” painted on it. He also uses it as a suitcase. Mr Brooker stays anywhere available wherever he happens to be when he wishes to sleep. Anything from a hotel to a haystack is acceptable, and he often rides through the pight. On an average he covers 35 miles a day. Mr Brooker will . leave Christchurch tomorrow, as he hopes to finish his South Island tour by the time the appeal starts on Saturday.