SCHOOLGIRLS’ HELP

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 277, 19 August 1944, Page 8

SCHOOLGIRLS’ HELP

£2BO Raised For Children’s Fund In London

A direct and practical contribution to the Save the Children Fund in London has been made by the pupils of Chilton St. James’ School. Lower Hutt, who have given £284/10/- to the fund, being the proceeds from a sale of work held at the school recently. The N.Z. representative, Mrs. M. Stables, who opened the sale, said the girls’ effort was a particularly fine one and worthy of high praise. Mrs. Stables, who lives in Wellington, has been representative in the Dominion since 1921. two years after the fund was founded. From early in 1922 to 1924, no less than £47,000 was sent from N.Z. to help the starving children who were among Europe’s war victims. This was done as a result of Mrs. Stables’ interesting the mayor and leading citizens in the scheme. Dominion-wide interest followed. When the Earl of Listowel was in Wellington recently with the British Parliamentary Delegation, he personally thanked Mrs. Stables for her work for the fund, of which the Earl is a council member. Tlie Save the Children Fund is an association whose aim it is. irrespective of race, country or creed, to preserve life, wherever menaced by conditions of hardship or distress and to raise standards of child care and protection. It was founded by a Quakeress, Miss Eglantyne J ebb.