CHILDREN ASSISTED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 69, 20 February 1932, Page 8

CHILDREN ASSISTED.

VICTIMS OF EARTHQUAKE. HAWKE’S BAY’S GRATITUDE. Per Press Association. NAPIER. Feb. 19. The wonderful work of the Auckland Community Sunshine League in taking charge of a further batch of children from the earthquake area and extending to them the advantages of several months at the sunshine camp on Motuihi Island was referred to by the chairman, Mr G. A. Maddisonj at a meoting of the Hawke’s Bay Education Board this morning. After referring to the matter, on' the motion of the chairman, the following resolution was carried: “That this board records its deep sense of gratitude to the Community Sunshine Association, Auckland, for its generous action in..taking 90 children from this district and in maintaining them in the health camp on Motuihi Island. The board deeply appreciates the kindly thought which has prompted this action and the association’s remembrance of tile people of this district and especially of its remembrance of the children in the trials and difficulties through which they are still passing as a result of the disastrous earth- 1 quake. The board also congratulates the association on its fine public spirit and on its true Christian chafity, and wishes to assure it that its kindness to the children and the work on their behalf will always be remembered with deep thankfulness by the citizens of Hawke’s Bay.” The chairman also referred to the hospitality extended to the children when passing through by the Mayor of Palmerston North (Mr Mansford), appreciation of Mr Mansford’s actions being embodied in the resolution.