WAR ORPHANS
SWITZERLAND SETS AN EXAMPLE
Each three months since the outbreak of war the Swiss Red Cross has been selecting 10,000 starving orphans from devastated countries, taking them to Switzerland and nursing them back to health and strength before returning them home again, said the chairman of the Dominion Settlement and Population Association, Mr. A. Leigh Hunt, in an address to the Wadestown and Highland Park Men's Society. Switzerland was one-sixth the size of New Zealand, had a population of 4,000,000, and was severely rationed for food and clothing. If it could do what it had done, surely New Zealand, a land of plenty, should consider what it could do to offer a permanent haven of-refuge to European orphans after the war.
There was an attendance of 60 at the meeting.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 81, 3 October 1944, Page 8
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