General News

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31677, 13 May 1968, Page 12

General News

Wahine Fund Donations to the Wahine Disaster Fund now amount to $560.45c. This includes $11.54c raised by an 11-year-old boy who organised a street stall selling cakes and sweets made by his mother and her friends. A donation of $1.50 was taken to the North Canterbury centre of the Red Cross Society by a young girl who gathered and sold cones from fallen trees in Hagley Park. Thirty-one persons in Christchurch have assisted with new outfits of clothing, and in special cases, cash grants from the fund’ amounting to $960, have been paid. Hunger Trail A donation of $13,000 from the Roman Catholic community has increased the Council of Organisations for Relief Services Overseas "hunger trail” to $54,781. The one cent per inch trail now stretches 86 miles of the distance between North Cape and Bluff, the national secretary of C.0.R.5.0. (the Rev. H. C. Dixon) said.—(P.A.) World Weather Rome, 52 degrees minimum, 75 degrees maximum, overcast; Paris, 48, 58, rain; London, 45,55, partly cloudy; Berlin, 43, 72, sunny; Amsterdam, 50, 55, cloudy; Brussels, 41, 60, overcast: Madrid, 45, 70, sunny; Moscow, 49, 66, sunny; Stockholm, 46, 60, cloudy; New York, 60, 75, partly cloudy; San Francisco, 51, 55, partly cloudy; Tokyo, 55, 73, cloudy; Mexico City, 53, '9, cloudy; Buenos Aires, 56, 75, clear.—(London, Mav 11.)