RUSSIAN FAMINE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 446, 11 July 1922, Page 6

RUSSIAN FAMINE.

TO TUB EDITOE. Sir—lt is extraordinary how little interest and response lias been shown in ’lns town with regard to the urgent appeal to gave the children and people of Russia from starvation and death. The statement that appeared in the papers a few weeks ago that the need was now over lias been show n to be quite false, and lives can si ill I w saved by a little effort and solt-sacrhiee It mav interest people to know that it ±/tuu is subscribed a kitchen tun be started to feed 88 children every day. _ The churchwarden of All Saints has just received a letter from Lord Weardalc, chairman of the committee for the Save the Children Fund,” acknowledging the sum of £B3, and saving that a kitchen has been started at Saratov, to be, called the All Saints’ Palmerston North Kitchen I mention this in order to suggest that other kitchens might he started m the same way bv people ol ibis town. ' Why not. sir, start a “Manawntu Standard”' kitchen, by appealing m your columns for £'oo from your readers? Why should not one of the oilier churches, or the Freemasons or Friendly Societies endeavour also to stall a kitchen of their own? 1 feel sure the apathy of the town lias been largely due to a failure to realise the awful conditions now prevailing m Russia, and how many lives may he saved hv an effort on our part. Clothes arc also urgently needed, and if sent to Captain Galloway, Red Cross Headquarters, 63 Dixon street, Wellington, will he taken to Russia, free of cost, by the skipping companies.—ljani, etc., ‘ Ji. G. ni.AC’KRI RNE.