DISTRESSED MINERS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 81, 29 December 1928, Page 7

DISTRESSED MINERS

RELIEF MEASURES - RESPONSE TO PRINCE’S APPEAL . .. ’ (British Official Wireless.). Rugby, December 27. Success attended the efforts made in distressed areas to secure that no family in need should be without reasonable fare on Christmas Day. The organisations, which have for some time been engaged in relief work and the new bodies called into existence by the great wave of public concern, were busily engaged in distributing vast consignments of food and clothing. The moving appeal made by wireless on Christmas evening by the Prince of Wales on behalf of the workless miners and their dependents has already met with striking response, Lady Houston leaving £30,000 and Lord Rothermere £25,000 to the Lord Mayor’s Fund at the Mansion House, The “Daily Mail” states that the total fund is now approaching half -a million pounds.

PRINCE’S POSTBAG RECORD SIZE .

(Australian Press Association.)

London, December 27.

The Prince of Wales’s postbag at York House was one of the biggest on record as the result of his broadcast on behalf of the miners. There were letters from all classes. Many describe how immediately the Prince had spoken the hat, was handed round and from a modest 10s. upwards sent to the Mansion House, where there were over a thousand contributions by the’ first post.

The Prince spent a good deal of Christmas Day composing his appeal, which lie only finished just before he went to the microphone. The fund is now about £350,000, apart from the Government’s contributions.