INTERNATIONAL RELIEF
IN EVENT OF PUBLIC MISFORTUNES 27 COUNTRIES JOIN UNION. British Official Wireless Service. Rugby, Dec. 28. Twenty-seven countries have so far acceded to the convention creating an international relief union. Its object is to provide relief in money and kind, and co-ordinate relief works in respect to public misfortunes due to forces of Nature, the exceptional gravity of which exceeds the limits of the nowers or resources of the stricken people The convention came into operation at Geneva yesterday. For its principal resources, the union will depend on donations, bequests and public contributions with an initial fund of 420,000 Swiss francs contributed* by the States that are members.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 16, 30 December 1932, Page 5
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