CRIPPLED CHILDREN

Northern Advocate, 19 October 1935, Page 9

CRIPPLED CHILDREN

N.Z. SOCIETY’S NEEDS.. FUNDS INSUFFICIENT. [Special to “Northern Advocate”! AUCKLAND, Friday. The New Zealand Crippled Children Society held its first annual meeting last night, when various matters in connection with the welfare of cripples were discussed. It was decided that more funds were needed for the benefit of cripples, and that the response to appeals had been disappointing. The report stated that out of 99 local bodies in the Auckland province to which application for financial assistance had been made, 55 had agreed to co-operate, the sum received to September 30 being £2BO 15/. To the same date £167 had been contributed by 15 schools which had responded to an appeal to all the schools in the province to "organise one effort a year. Of that amount £l5O had been given by the students and staff of the Seddon Memorial Technical College. As the New Zealand Crippled Children Society had agreed that the provision of home would not be part of its policy, the committee recommended that the branch, at least in the early stages, should use for its general purposes the share allocated to it by the New Zealand Society of the income from Lord Nuffield’s gift of , £50,000 and other donations given to ’provide a national endowment for crippled children’s work. That was unlikely to exceed £SOO per year.