CARE FOR NEEDY CHILDREN
WELLINGTON, Fri. (P.A.)—A donation of £250,000 to the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund was recently made by the New Zealand Government.
How best this money can be spent in New Zealand on food for children and how the food can be transported to distribution centres in needy countries is the subject of discussions in Wellington between Mr Donald E Watkins, representative of the fund in Australia and New Zealand, and the Government.
On behalf of life needy children of the world, million:- of whom, he said, had never had a roof over their heads or shoes on their feet, Mr Watkins, in an interview today, expressed thanks to the Government and people of New Zealand for their donation. MANY BEING HELPED
Mr Watkins said that the numbers Of children the fund hoped to provide for in the first six months’ operations included: Austria, 240,000; Albania, Czechoslovakia, Finland and Hungary, a combined total of 240.000; China. 700,000; France. 70.000; Greece, 340.000; Italy. 3G0.000; Poland, 700.000; Yugoslavia 600.000.
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Northern Advocate, 29 November 1947, Page 8
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