GREAT RELIEF EFFORT ACKNOWLEDGED BY COOK COUNTY COUNCIL
-SINCE we last met a calamity has overtaken this district, of a magnitude greater than any experienced in the past,” said the chairman, Mr. E. H. Baker, at yesterday’s meeting of the Cook County Council.
Many settlers had suffered heavily through loss of stock and crops, and through damage to their homes, fences and land, added Mr. Baker, who moved that the council express its deepest sympathy with the flood sufferers.
this connection had been worthy of the occasion, as also had that of the large number of volunteer workers who had given their services. The response of the public to the domestic'relief needs and to the need for speedy rehabilitation work on the farms also was commented upon by the chairman, who said that the actual rescue work in the flood areas, the work of large groups of volunteers and the organisation of relief in general had been nothing short of magnificient. The council, on the motion of the chairman, recorded its grateful appreciation of the public response to the *
The motion was seconded by Mr. R. C. Murphy, and carried unanimously. The chairman also referred to the magnincient efTorts made for the immediate relief of the flood sufferers.
A quick survey made immediately after the flood revealed a degree of devastation that called for emergency measures, and he had had no hesitation in asking the council’s clerk and engineer, Messrs. R. K. Gardiner and K. F. Jones, to use the resources of the council to the full in this effort. There had been a big job well done in the removal of dead stock and the reclamation of what was possible to save, and the work of Mr. Jones in
emergency through the various agencies’ involved. Acknowledgment was also made of, the prompt assistance given by the' Prime Minister, Mr. P. Fraser, by way; of a gift of Army clothing which had gone a long way towards relieving the personal problems of flood sufferers.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22648, 27 May 1948, Page 6
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334GREAT RELIEF EFFORT ACKNOWLEDGED BY COOK COUNTY COUNCIL Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22648, 27 May 1948, Page 6
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