HUMANITARIAN PROJECT
CHILD PATIENT AS MASCOT OFFER BY AIR SQUADRON (P.A.) AUCKLAND. Oct. 9. An offer by a squadron of the Royal New Zealand Air Force to adopt as its mascot a child patient in the Wilson Homi was accepted to-night by the Auckland Hospital Board, the selection of a suitable child being left to the matron of the institution. A member of the squadron, writing on behalf of all the members, advised that their decision had been unanimous. He referred to the adoption by another squadron of a young girl, Gloria Lyons, a victim of tuberculosis of the spine and a patient in the Christchurch Public Hospital as its mascot and the subsequent considerable improvement in her health and mental outlook. “It is the wish of this squadron to follow their example and to interest ourselves in the welfare of a parallel case,” added the letter. “As our job of work in war is necessarily _of a destructive character, it is the wish of the members of the squadron to offset this to some extent at least by undertalcing a project’that is actively constructive, and it is our hope that the benefits accruing will be of a permanent nature, ,as indeed they will be our efforts can assist the child back to health and happiness.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25662, 10 October 1944, Page 6
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