Opportunities For C.0.R.S.0.

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31598, 8 February 1968, Page 10

Opportunities For C.0.R.S.0.

' C.0.R.5.0. was grasping opportunities such as education in schools, youth seminars, increased public information and projects such as the .wholemilk biscuit and the hunger trail, the new district organiser (Mr R. H. French) told about 30 members of the C.0.R.5.0. packing committee at a meeting yesterday.

Mr French was welcomed by the chairman of the Christchurch District C.0.R.5.0. Committee (Sir Francis Adams). Mr French said that concern for others should be one of New Zealand’s exports as it had an unlimited market overseas. Aid should be more, however, than just an ins-.r-ance policy. “Compassion is the cement that binds together any society of this sort, but there is a danger of charities becoming a form of clubmanship and in some cases even a substitute for religion,” he said. “We can only claim success when we are no longer needed.” Mr French said that C.0.R.5.0. was very conscious of its work among the new generation in New Zealand which had not known war and depression. Most of next month would be spent visiting schools in the Christchurch area. Schools further away would be visited later. One of the most important projects this year would be the wholemilk biscuit which had been developed by the Dairy Research Institute and the Dairy Board to simplify distribution of milk to children overseas.

The biscuit, based on the Mr French said that the cost solids in milk, comes in four o f eac [j biscuit was between 1c flavours and will keep almost „„. „„ nnn indefinitely. Two biscuits and 2c ‘ There were 54 ’ 000 are equivalent in nutritional biscuits to a ton, costing about value to half a pint of milk. $7OO.

The biscuits had already been used in Western Samoa and it had been found that two milk biscuits each day for three months had doubled the weight gain of the child-

ren under test compared with a control group. Clothing was still important and C.0.R.5.0. would continue to meet the demand, said Mr French. In the present economic situation the work of the supporters of C.0.R.5.0. such as the packing committee would be even more important than ever.

Sir Francis Adams said that the C.0.R.5.0. committee was grateful and proud of the vast amount of work done by the packing committee. Mrs E. M. Allen, a member of the packing committee, who has retired after 12 years service, was presented with a book on the history of the organisation in Ne v ' Zealand by Sir Francis Adams. The photograph shows Mr French (left) showing some of the wholemilk biscuits to Sir Francis Adams.