RECORD YEAR FOR FUND

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31346, 17 April 1967, Page 2

RECORD YEAR FOR FUND

The New Zealand Save The Children Fund had another record year of fundraising, with an increase of more than £13,000 over last year’s total.

This year more than £136,000 was raised, compared with £123,000 last year, said the Dominion chairman (Mrs F. L. Fancourt) at the first day of the annual meeting on Friday. The Rice Bowl appeal result also had increased. Last year about £33,000 was raised and this year more than £37,000. With the ever-in-creasing number of organisations holding annual, national appeals it had become imperative that the fund agree on a definite month for the Rice Bowl appeal: September had been agreed on for a national effort

“Much interest has been shown by branches in the work we can do in Vietnam and correspondence with London headquarters has resulted in the suggested co-operation of the New Zealand and Australian Save The Children Funds in supporting our work in that country. The fund’s director of overseas relief will visit Vietnam in May and will send us a report regarding any future development of our work there. We are most grateful for permission to send all urgent goods to our team by the R.N.Z.A.F.,” said Mrs Fancourt “We feel that the New Zealand fund should become the supplier of milk powder and vitamins to ail the teams overseas, thus conserving our overseas funds. In fact tills seems to be becoming the case when we see the amount of such foodstuffs sent by us this year and the orders already received for next year. The usual order of 16 tons of full-cream milk powder was sent to Korea (6 tons of that is paid for by British Columbia S.C.F.). “In all 32 tons of skim milk powder was sent to Jordan, Uganda and the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, and 1.5 million multi-vitamin capsules. These orders, apart from that for Jordan remain the same, but as supplies of full-cream milk for London have been cut we have been asked to send 22 tons of skim milk and six tons of fullcream milk there, as well as the usual order’ of vitamins, said Mrs Fancourt.

Thanks were expressed for assistance received from C.0.R.5.0. which included £5OOO to the nutritional unit in Uganda; milk powder to the value of £750 for Korea

as the amount allocated to S.C.F. from the £6OOO raised by the Master Grocers in their “Milk for Millions” campaign; £1750 for the purchase of a tractor to be used at the Yung Hwa Sook development scheme in Pusan. “We have achieved much this year and we have a right to be proud of our achievements. Nonetheless we can-

not afford to be complacent.

While people suffer and children are denied the ordinary rights of mankind we must press on making known the needs as they still exist, and exerting ourselves to fill those needs as best we may. This will be the continued aim of the Save The Children Fund for the year to come," said Mrs Fancourt.