SCOUTS' DISTRESS FUND

New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24137, 2 December 1941, Page 8

SCOUTS' DISTRESS FUND

£2OOO GIFT ACKNOWLEDGED (" BY TETjEGHArn—PRESS ASSOCIATION"] WELLINGTON, Monday The imperial headquarters of the Boy Scouts' Association, London, has written to the National Patriotic Fund Board expressing thanks and appreciation for a gift of £2OOO from the people of New Zealand. This sum was allocated to the association from £IOO,OOO sent to Britain this year for the relief of distress. The letter explains that the money has been placed to the credit of the association s war distress scouts' fund, established at the outbreak of the war to help scouts at home and abroad who suffer from enemy action. The fund had been a great help. scouts had reached Britain from countries which had been over-run, and the association had given assistance to enable them to start their scouting again. "As regards our own boys," the letter continues, "the heavy bombardment when so many of our cities and towns have suffered has resulted in the loss of a large number of headquarters, much gear and equipment, uniforms and Erivate effects. Here again we have een able to give much-needed help. We have also devoted considerable sums to getting boys away from badly blitzed areas and giving them a week or fortnight's holiday in rest camps, so as to refresh them for anything that may lie ahead."