CLOTHING FOR EUROPE

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 July 1945, Page 2

CLOTHING FOR EUROPE

COLLECTION BY SCHOOLS CHRISTCHURCH, July 20. The Canterbury Education Board, at its meeting to-day gave its “hearty approval and co-operation’ to a proposal by the Education Department to use the services of school children in the collection of clothing for the people of devastated Europe, but at least one individual member showed he was not completely in sympathy with the proposal. Mr. F. L. Turley said that when it was remembered that millions of our people had been slaughtered in Europe and that one read of the “heads” still living in luxury hotels in Luxemburg, he was not particularly interested in what happened to people who tolerated that sort of thing. Mr. W. P. Spencer agreed that there was something in what Mr. Turley said. The “heads” could probably supply quite a lot of what the people of Europe needed. "To my mind this action is the very one that is going to prevent war in the future,” replied Mr. C. S. Thompson, chairman of the board. “It is go-, ing to create a fellow-feeling among the nations and you cannot stop wars until you get that fellow-feeling.” The senior inspector (Mr. H. D. Prichard) pointed out that some of ihe devastated lands for whose people the clothing was wanted were our Allies. The board did not approve of the department’s suggestion to declare a half-holiday on August 3 for the collection of clothes but decided to extend the organisation over the whole of that week. A conference with the headmasters will be held to arrange the details. Board members were authorised to make similar arrangements in the various towns of the board’s district. UNRRA CONTRIBUTIONS NEW YORK. July 19. The Acting-Director-General of UNRRA (Mr Roy Hendrickson) has announced that only nine of the 33 nations expected to contribute 1 per cent, of their national incomes to UNRRA’S operating costs had yet done so. They were the United States, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Panama. Costa Rica. Brazil, and Iceland. Mr Hendrickson said that invaded nations were not expected to contribute anything, except a share of the administrative expenses. Iraq and Persia were the only nations which, so far, had not contributed to UNRRA.’s administrative operating fund. , • ■ 4.L. Mr Hendrickson, -emphasising the immediate need for relief supplies, ■■aid UNRRA hoped to obtain 65.000 dollars worth of surplus American military stocks before 1946.