PRACTICAL SYMPATHY

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 180, 28 April 1931, Page 8

PRACTICAL SYMPATHY

A Cheque From Canada EARTHQUAKE DISASTER Writing to a friend in Wellington, Mr. John Dean, Head Street, Esquimalt, V. 1., 8.C., Canada, says: “How we sympathise with you in your calamity and suffering, which is very great, brought on in the twinkling of an eye, one might say. Remembering my very pleasant contact with New Zealand in 1913 and its hospitable people I enclose £5 to aid in earthquake relief at your discretion.” Mr. Dean has been a leading Canadian civic worker and a great traveller, his interest in community matters is deep and sincere, and his efforts on behalf of public progress have been far-reaching and beneficial. Although 80 years of age, he has just returned from a trip—Cape to Cairo, then Egypt. Cyprus, Italy. Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, and Norway. Of interest to New Zealand, he says: “I am convinced there is a market for our apples in Africa, Italy, Denmark, Sweden and Norway. In the two lastnamed, both Australian and New Zealand apples are on sale, and New Zealand pears I paid the equivalent of Bd, or 16 cents, for one of the latter, which was sold by weight at Bergen—large, firm and inviting russet colour.”