HELP FOR THE BELGIANS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2752, 22 April 1916, Page 10

HELP FOR THE BELGIANS

A LETTER OF APPRECIATION. ' The Belgian Sewing Guild at Eltham has for a considerable time made and sent regularly to the destitute Belgians a large amount of children's clothingThe president of the guild, Mrs. H. J. • Barnard, has received tlie following letter from Mr. J. Navaux, the secretary of the Belgian Belief Committee in London: —. "I read with great interest your kind letter of December .26. A second case, in addition to the''one of which you advised me, lias come to hand safely. [ am delighted with the contents, which are just what is required at the present time. I am constantly receiving appeals for help from poor Belgian mothers 'over here, for infants' garments. and tho need is equally groat in Belgium, where there are' numbers of my countrywomen who have absoluteIr nothing for. their little ones, nor have they any money to buy the necessary clothing. Your' liberal gifts will come to theso poor souls js a great boon. Should there be any surplus garments they will go to one or other or the creches for Belgian orphans which have been established under the protection of Eer Majesty Queen Elizabeth. "I cannot 'thank you enough for all you have dono to assist ine in my work of relief. Please extend my sincere thanks to the V.ind friends in Neyr Zealand who have -o generously co-oper-ated with you. Their .gifts have been tho means of bringing comfors to the comfortless in numberless instances."