RUSSIAN FAMINE RELIEF

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 25 November 1922, Page 10

RUSSIAN FAMINE RELIEF

NEW ZBALAND’^ASSISTANCE

THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN

SAVED

The generous response made by the people of Now Zealand it) the appeal of the Lord Mayor of London for the relief of the famine-stricken inhabitants of Russia has been asknowlcdged in several quarters. Mr G. IL Furness, chairman of the Auckland Citizens' Committee appointed to organise the appeal, has received a- letter' from the High Commissioner, Sir James Allen, staling that all consignments sent from this country reached their destination intact. Sir James slates that he has received communications from different officials connected with tho Mansion House, London, thanking the people of New Zealand for’ the help they have given in “the very _ great work which now stands to their credit in Russia,” and assuring him that their magnificent efforts have been tho means of saving thousands of little children and orphans, who, but lor them, must have died of starvation. Sir Benjamin Robertson says the work of the British organisations saved 1,000,000 people from a, lingering, horrible death, and that the British units, who were in the field before all other foreign organisations, did more for the prestige of Great Britain than a fleet of battleships.