£400,000 Budget To Relieve Hunger

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30739, 1 May 1965, Page 14

£400,000 Budget To Relieve Hunger

(New Zealand, Press Association)

WELLINGTON, April 30,

The Freedom-from-Hunger Campaign executive has approved a budget providing for the expenditure of £400,000 this year on voluntary aid to 16 needy countries.

Presenting the budget, which did not include proposed expenditure on projects still held in reserve, the campaign’s national secretary (the Rev. H. C. Dixon) said that three-quarters of the money would be spent on schemes, and the rest on C.0.R.5.0.'s continuing programme of relief work.

Allocations to schemes would consist of £lOO,OOO for U.N.I.C.E.F. projects and £200,000 for schemes classified either as F.A.O. or non-gov-ernmental projects. In the C.0.R.5.0. section of the budget, provision would be made for expenditure on two major welfare schemes to mark the organisation’s twenty-first anniversary. One would be a gift of £10,200 to help finance the Ja-

nata medical hall in Calcutta, and the other a £lO,OOO grant to a special, but still undetermined, scheme to help the? needy in Hong Kong or Korea. Aid for Freedom-from-Hunger campaign scheme would be dispersed to Tanzania, Dahomey. Panama, Ecuador, India, Paraguay, Malaysia, Pakistan, Samoa, Kenya; Brazil, Korea, Macau, Ceylon, Thailand, and Taiwan, said Mr Dixon. This aid would take the form of money for schemes to improve nutrition and food production. “We are confident.” he said, “that the bulk of New Zealand's contribution to the 1965 campaign will be made on Saturday, May 29, the date of our national cash appeal.”