"SUNNY NEW ZEALAND."

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, 24 October 1916, Page 5

"SUNNY NEW ZEALAND."

A GIFT FOR BELGIUM

The Lord Mayor of London, who is (says tho Post's correspondent,' writing on September Bth) chairman of the National Committee for Relief in Belgium, has received, through the High Commissioner for New Zealand, a cheque for £5400, the first instalment of the subscriptions raised by the school children of the Dominion on Belgium Children's Day, and the following interesting letter from a little New Zealand school girl:—

"I am writing this letter on behalf of the children who attend-the little school at Aranui (50 children), which is five miles from Christchuircn, New Zealand.

In response to your appeal for the starving children of gallant little Belgium, we gladly did what we could to show them our loving sympathy. On Monday, 10th July, we held a juvenile bazaar, and in the evening we gave the best entertainment we could, and .to out joy we managed to gather £15. Just ten minutes ago two of the big boys rode out of the playground on their bicycles carrying the mone^ to give the secretary of the Board of Education, and as they went off we all gave three cheers for the Belgians.

We Tiope our gift will help some poor little children to get a good meal such as we enioy every day in the sunny land of New" Zealand.

Yours faithfully, (Signed) Muriel Brown.'•' This letter is certified by the headmastress of tlie school.