NOTABLE N.Z. FAMILY

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3133, 19 June 1942, Page 5

NOTABLE N.Z. FAMILY

MR G. ALLEY’S GIFT OF LAND MEMBER HELPING IN CHINA A correspondent writes the following to the Wellington Post concerning ‘the Alley family, a member of which has done such notable work in China. Again the Alley family is in the news. Mr George Alley, of the Bay of Plenty area (and formerly of Hikutaia), has given the great gift of 2300 acres of good land that is to be used for training returned men to go on the land equipped with some practical knowledge. Remembering the many failures on the land through lack of knowledge, after the Great War, the results of the Alley foundation will be highly satisfying to the R.S.A. (or services). Returning my personal thanks to Te Puke Ailey, I remember also the Canterbury Alleys, All 'Black Geoff., who is held in high regard by footballers. He is now doing* good work as head of the Government Country Library Service.

His sister is helping her husband Mr H. C. D. Somerset, establish the experiment in further adult education at the Community Centre in Feilding. But the most notable and famous of the family is that other brother, Rewi Alley, who organised that wonderful co-operative movement which is creating a New China in the interior behind the fighting lines: the Indusco. Almost it might be said that Alone He Has Done It. What a story —what an achievement. It is helping China win the war.