SAVE THE CHILDREN
In reply to a question- by Mar. R. A. Wright as to the position of the Save the Children Fund, the Minister for Internal Affairs (Hon. G. J. Anderson) stated in the House of Representatives yesterday that the sum of £35,400 had been forwarded to London. There "was another £10,000 in, sight, which would be despatched in the course of a few days. The latest information from London authorities was to the effect that every important part of the Empire was assisting. It would be wise to concentrate efforrt, and' it had been suggested by tTis Secretary of the. Imperial War Funds that it would be a good thing to bring under one fund any subsidiary efforts. There were no subsidiary efforts in New Zealand. The fund in London permitted money to be earmarked for particular branches of relief (such as tho children) for a particular country, but it was hopedl that nothing would be allowed to , obscure tho primary Red Cross nature of the appeal, dealing as it did first with tho typhus menace and the distress arising from famine conditions, leaving the larger question of relieving the famine conditions themselves to the Government grants and credits which were already being arranged, and which alone could he adequate "to ctattl .with so -vast a .problem.
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Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 86, 8 October 1920, Page 7
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219SAVE THE CHILDREN Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 86, 8 October 1920, Page 7
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