AN APPEAL

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 57, 8 March 1930, Page 8

AN APPEAL

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—lt is my privilege to ask you to permit me to bring before your readers the annual appeal for those who find care and support in the Church of England Homes in the Diocese of Wellington.

The Church of England has at present 22 homes in New Zealand for orphans and other needy and .destitute children. These have 910 inmates. Rather more" than one-quarter of this work is carried on in the Diocese of Wellington—viz., St. Mary's Guild at Karori has three homes with 104 girls, from two years old and upwards; the Anglican Boys' Homes' Society has a home at the Lower Hugtt with 65 boys and a framing farm sit Masterton with 15 boys. The All Saints' Children's Homes have a home at Palmerston North with 36 children, and a branch at Foxton with 25. Finally, the St. Barnabas Babies' Home at Khaiidallah for Motherless Bjibies'and other needly infants accommodates 16 babies. In addition to these children's homes, the Church of England has two rescue homes for unmarried mothers; four city miissions, of which the work carried on by the Rev. Feilden TayJ lor in the Wellington City Mission (formerly St. Peter's Mission) is well-known to all your readers; seven hostels for girls working away from home, which are virtually self-supporting; the Flying Angel Mission for Seamen ,in Auckland, and St. George's Hospital in Christchurch. The total cost of this work, excluding contributions by parents of children, is £40,000 per annum.

For the Wellington part of the work, we require £10,000 per annum, of which £2150 is contributed by parents, and £1300 is received in grants, leaving approximately £7000 to be raised each year by voluntary donations. If your readers could but see the little mites in their prams at Khandallah, or the other happy boys and girls in the other homes, and realise that they are needy children who, ! but for these homes, might be in dire straits, we feel sure many would gladly contribute.

Donations may be earmarked for any particular home, or given to the general fund. The vicar of any parish would gladly receive and forward any donation, or they may be sent to the treasurer, Wellington Diocesan Social Service Fund, Bor 7, Otaki Railway.—l .am, etc.,

C. H. ISAACSON, Treasurer Diocesan Social Service Board,

3rd May