DISTRESS IN BRITAIN.
SYMPATHY OF THE NATION. [VARIED FORMS OF EXPRESSION. (Received November 26, 5.23 p.m.) British Wireless. RUGBY, Nov. 20. The national sympathy felt for tho women and children ill the distressed mining areas of Britain is finding expression iu many forms. The chief of these is tho fund of the Lord Mayor of London, which now exceeds £1,000,000. The people of Worthing have f adopted " the district of Brynmawr, South Wales, with a population of 8000, in much the same way ns British townspeople adopted devastated French villages at tho end of tho war. The extension of this method ol giving help, together with other schemes, will bo considered at a conference of the heads of cjties and municipal boroughs which tho Lord Atayor of London, Sir 0. E. Ivynaston Sludd has summoned.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20114, 27 November 1928, Page 9
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