"NO TAKERS"

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23489, 28 October 1939, Page 2 (Supplement)

"NO TAKERS"

. TWO BLACK BABIES EVACUATION COMEDY SURPRISE IN ENVELOPE three million women and children move en masse, into new homes it becomes, and remains, Britain's big talking point. And here is the best story from the reception areas, states the Sunday Express, London. There were two piccaninnies, a boy and a girl, among the batch of children from London. And no one in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, would take them in. The billeting officer took them from house to house, but it was tho same answer everywhere. Excuses, more exCIISCS. "This colour bar is unfair," he thought, as he looked down into the two dusky, trusting faces. "Dashed if I won't take them home myself." His wife was charmed with them. They had obviously been well-cared for at home. Their clothes, she noticed, were hand-made. Undressing the little girl that night., she fount! an envelope pinned Securely to her petticoat. Tt read simply: "To the. woman who undresses my children to-night, with thapks for iooking after them. God bless you." Enclosed was £o0! The money is now in the hank to he used for the children's food, clothes and schooling.