PASSAGE MONEY SENT
Bringing Child from Russia RESTORATION TO PARENTS After four and a half years’ labours, the Rod Cross Society has now had the satisfaction of completing arrangements for restoring, to her parents in Foxton a Russian girl who was located after her whereabouts had been unknown for some time. Mr. G. M. Henderson reported at the monthly meeting of the Wellington Centre of the New Zealand Red Cross Society last week that the fund raised to assist the girl now stood at £lO9 11/9. The full passage money from Siberia to New Zealand bad been remitted to the League of the Red Cross Societies, and they now awaited advice that the child was on her journey. On behalf of the society he thanked those who had so generously and promptly responded to the appeal. It was over four years and a half since the case was brought to the notice of the society, and negotiations have been Jn progress continuously over the intervening years. Ono and all hoped that it would not be long before the child was reunited to its parents. A tribute was paid to the effective cooperation shown by the Red Cross people on the other side of the world and ijfso to the work of the local secretary.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 37, 7 November 1933, Page 8
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