LITTLE BRITONS

Grey River Argus, 3 August 1940, Page 6

LITTLE BRITONS

N.Z. PREPARATIONS For Several Thousand [Per Press Association] WELLINGTON, August 2. Although there has been a temporary postponement of th e scheme lor the evacuation to the Dominions or British children of the ages of oetween five and sixteen years, tfie work of preparing for the rec®** l ? of the quota of these children to be sent to New Zealand is being tinued. , The Minister of Internal Af£a * stated to-night that cables were; sti being exchanged between the Ua ed Kingdom Government and «ie New Zealand Government New Zealand families, he said, had nom nated more than three thousand children, these being mostly tn children of relatives and friends, England, to be brought to the do had also been received, from New Zealand parents, which would mean a home for five thousand unspecified children. •‘All of the nominations and °ra r ' to take children evacuated to New Zealand,” Mr. Parry said ‘‘have bee r sent forward to the United Kin S d °™ I Government, through Mr. J° rdan ’ High Commissioner for New Zealan in Loudon. Had there not been a temporary postponement of scheme, it would not b e over-estimat in« the patriotism and sympathy o our people to say that there woul have been hundreds, if not thousands, of more offers received by the Government- There has not been tne slightest cavilling over this scheme It has received a spontaneous ana remarkable reception.