5000 Collectors In C.O.R.S.O. Appeal

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32018, 19 June 1969, Page 18

5000 Collectors In C.O.R.S.O. Appeal

Three thousand collectors will take part in the C.0.R.5.0. house-to-house appeal in Christchurch on Saturday. Last year $23,000 was raised by the same number of collectors and postal donations increased this to $30,000 during the next week.

Two thousand more collectors will cover 150 centres throughout Canterbury and Westland. In Timaru there will be 240 collectors, and in Greymouth 120.

“As this is our silver anniversary year, our committees are throwing their efforts into this appeal with particular enthusiasm,” said Mr R. H. French, organiser in the Canterbury-West Coast area, yesterday. “We are campaigning in much more favourable economic conditions than last year, and if the weather is kind to us we are sure that householders will be especially generous. "We come to them with the remarkable record of having sent s4om of aid overseas. Our organisation, which started its work of restoring

human beings at the end of the Second World War, now binds up the wounds of peace.

“Project work—the setting up of the means whereby hunger and poverty will be eliminated—now has a considerable public appeal. C.0.R.5.0. spends more than $500,000 a year on this, and the two special silver anniversary projects are attractive examples of New Zealanders helping all along the way. “A $20,000 ward at the Princess Tshai Hospital, Addis Ababa, will facilitate the work of Dr R. Hamlin, formerly of Napier. In the last nine years Dr Hamlin and his wife have performed more than 1000 operations on mothers suffering severe childbirth injuries. C.0.R.5.0. has supported this work with an annual grant of $l5OO for the last seven years. “The other silver anniversary project, a $50,000 school of agriculture on the island of Cheju, Korea, recognises the achievements of a New Zealand V.S.A. worker and an Irish priest, whose pioneer work among Korean farmers has grown into a major development scheme opening up 50,000 acres of farmland. “It is particularly satisfying that we can use New Zealand money to back up New Zealand skills and selfsacrifice,” said Mr French. “I have no doubt that the people of Canterbury and the West Coast can produce the generous gesture to match such dedication.”

Sheep Savaged.—More than 30 sheep were killed and 70 mauled in two attacks by dogs on a farm near Hawera on Saturday and Monday. The dogs responsible had been identified said the farm manager, Mr P. Ashwell.— (P.A.)