FAR EAST RELIEF FUND

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22948, 28 January 1938, Page 12

FAR EAST RELIEF FUND

CITIZENS' APPEAL CLOSED Total of £7is raised The Auckland Citizens' Far East Relief Appeal has been closed with subscriptions 'totalling £715. The appeal was launched at a public meeting in Auckland in the Town Hall on December 3 presided over b.v the Mayor, Sir Ernest Davis, and undertaken at the instance of a joint council of the Order of St. John and the New Zealand Red Cross Society, which set out to raise £IO,OOO throughout Now Zealand for the relief of distress in China. The Dominion appeal was sponsored by the Government, which made a grant of £IOOO and promised legislation to validate grants by local bodies. When the public meeting of Auckland citizens convened by the Mayor decided to support the fund, those present subscribed £.'J9. The Auckland City Council made a grant of £IOO, and the Auckland Harbour Board gave £2OO and the Auckland Electric-Power Hoard £2O. By permission of the Education Board subscription lists wore circulated in the schools and lists were also supplied to Auckland business firms. 11l announcing last evening the result of the appeal, the Mayor stated that he had been advised that so terrible and widespread had been the distress in Shanghai that it had been possible to allow from the relief funds only os a month for each refugee.