FOR CHILDREN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23703, 10 January 1939, Page 14

FOR CHILDREN

MONEY AND CLOTHING WANTED (From Our Own Correspondent) (By Air Mail) LONDON, Dec. 15. The committee of the New Zealand Women's Association has issued to all New Zealanders in Great Britain an “ Emergency Appeal.” believing that they would like to do something to help the refugee children who are arriving from the Continent. Many thousands are expected. Owing to the urgency of the situation, *it has been found impossible to organise workparties for the making of clothes, so that gifts of money and suitable warm clothes for children are suggested. Any contributions should arrive by the end of January. . At the recent reception given by the New Zealand Women’s Association Mr Fuller, a member of The Save the Children Fund, spoke, and referred with much appreciation to the liberal financial hel]i> which New Zealand had from time to time given to his organisation. The £47,000 subscribed in the Dominion after the war had enabled the organisers of the fund to begin infant welfare work in Latvia. Esthonia and Czechoslovakia. At the present time, a former New Zealander. Mr H. W. H. Sams (Christchurch) is at Prague, helping with the administration of the Lord Mayor of London’s Fund, The Save the Children Fund makes no distinction of creed or nationality. Mrs E. S. Harston (Wellington) is a member of the Overseas Committee of the fund in London.