POLICE "ADOPT" CHILDREN
Port of London police, noted for their work for dockland's poor children, "adopted" forty youngsters for the recent holidays. The children, whose fathers are unemployed seamen and dockers, lived in the homes of the policemen. They shared the gifts of the children in the house, and were treated as members of tho family. Among them were children whose fathers lost their lives in the Blairgowrie disaster. They stayed with the policemen's families until the schools reopened. I
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22350, 22 February 1936, Page 29 (Supplement)
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80POLICE "ADOPT" CHILDREN New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22350, 22 February 1936, Page 29 (Supplement)
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