PICNIC MONEY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 5, 6 July 1943, Page 3

PICNIC MONEY

CHILDREN BOUGHT PARCELS

One of the best patriotic parcel stories began at the Newtown School last year when someone among the children had an idea about the annual picnic, to give it up that year and spend the money on soldiers' parcels. And so it was,, and when the' day that should have'been picnic day was well past the youngsters probably forgot about it, but not long ago-letters began to come back from North Africa, for with; each parcel went a note from a child ,and .another from the .Welling-, ton secretary, the Hon. Vincent Ward, M.L.C. The men who: wrote back well remembered their own school picnic days and, spread themselves to thank the .youngsters. One soldier gave a tight-packed six-page N.Z.E.F. record from Bardia on to Tunisia and two pages to the picnic he and his mates had with the parcel, the only mail to reach him when it was most desired, at Christmas time. The children at Newtown School have undertaken now to try to send £5 worth of parcels every month, quite an undertaking, likely to mop up sweets and picture money arid bottle-o and chore money. "Smallest contributions, etc." —these are all big contributions, from small people.