AN ENGLISHMAN'S THANKS
TO WELLINGTON CHILDREN.
A spontaneous and pleasing acknowledgment has been received by the Mayor of Wellington (Mr. J. P. Luke) from a London resident, Mr. Arthur JV Waterfield, who wishes to thank the school children ofL the Wellington district for their contributions in aid of the relief of little sufferers by the East London airraids. "My dear children," writes Mr. Waterfield, "I have' just read in the paper that you have collected £600 for the child sufferers from the recent air attack on London. Your great thoughtfulnesfi and' kindness is certain to be greatly appreciated by those for whom you have raised this fund. I feel sure that many a little London child will bless its unknown friends far away across the seas. When I .'saw by the newspaper what you had done I thought to myself 'I must write to these kind New Zealand boys and' girls and tell them how it touched ,the heart of just an ordinary Englishman.'" Mr. ' Waterfield concludes : "I have nearly finished an album of coloured pictures to send to one of the children's hospitals here. I shall write in this and say it is in honour of the kind-hprted school children of the Wellington district."
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 69, 19 September 1917, Page 2
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205AN ENGLISHMAN'S THANKS Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 69, 19 September 1917, Page 2
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