CHRISTMAS CAMPAIGN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20112, 24 November 1928, Page 4 (Supplement)

CHRISTMAS CAMPAIGN.

OUTING FOR IPOOR CHILDREN. Many enquiries have been made lately as to when we shall be starting our Herald Santa Claris Sleigh Christmas campaign for the poor and sick children of Auckland. I talked the matter this week with the St. John Ambulance Nurses, with whom we always work for the Sleigh and Comfort Ship, and we , decided that this yoar our Herald Brigade Christmas campaign should take a new form

I wonder if any of you would tie clever enough to guess what Nurse suggested ? I was delighted when she asked me what I thought of the idoa, and I am qtute sure you will be, too! Here it is—a Christmas outing for all the poor little children who have been under Nurses' care during the year! Many of these children live in the poorest homes of tho city; some are fatherless or motherless, and happy outings and picnics such as all the rest of as so often enjoy are unknown to quite a number of them, So we are going to open a Christmas Outing Fund, and our usual Good Cheer Fund at once, with an objective of £SO The Good Cheer Fund, as, no doubt, most of yon know, is for the provision of little Christmas comforts for the poor old folk whom Nurse attends. Many of them are old-age pensioners, living in one room; they have bat few joys to brighten their last days, and had it not been for the splendid response of our boys and girls and their friends during the past four years, their Christinas Day would have been cheerless indeed.

Now, dear boys nnd girls, parents and all' kind friands, are you going to help onco more? Straight-out cash donations this time please, any sum at all from a shilling upward. If you can find the time perhnps some of you could arrange the little " bazaarettes " that were such a success in our Comfort Ship Campaign, and I know that many other bright ideas for assisting our fund will occur to you. As an incentive to effort, prizes will be awarded for the most original and successful means adopted for raising money for the Outing and Good Cheer Fund.

We shall arrange for a picnic to some suitable spot where the children can play games, and there will have to he prizes, lollic-scrambles, buried treasure, and all the usual fun of a Christmas picnic. Donations will lx» acknowledged each week in " Girls arid Boys," and to give our fund a good start, your editor will make the first donation, £l. Now, girls and boy#, whose name is going to follow ? It will have to be a " whirlwind" campaign, closing on December 15, three weeks from to-day, so that we can hold the outing the Saturday before Christinas Day.

Only three weeks to go, £SO to obtain! Start now!