A GENEROUS RESPONSE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25856, 29 May 1945, Page 4

A GENEROUS RESPONSE

FOOD FOR GREAT BRITAIN APPEAL BY COUNCIL OF WOMEN “We are very grateful to the many people who have so generously responded to the appeal for donations of tinned goods or cash to enable foodstuffs to be sent to the women of Great Britain,” said the president of the Dunedin branch of the National Council of Women (Mrs A. A. Fairbairn) to a Daily Times reporter yesterday. Mrs Fairbairn said that £ll4 in cash had been received to date, the gifts varying from small sums to amounts as large as £lO 10s. The women of Balclutha had forwarded £37, in addition to a donation of goods. Substantial donations had also been received from the women of Clarendon and Milburn, and the Orkney and Shetland Society had made a donation of £lO and a quantity of goods. The committee was equally' grateful, Mrs Fairbairn added, to those persons who were bringing to the Garrison Hall gifts of single tins at a time, many of them promising a further donation. Nine cases of tinned goods, amounting to one cubic ton, for despatch to the women of Clydebank, which was badly bombed, have already' been packed by the. executive members of the Duneqin branch, and there are still large quantities of goods of a wide variety awaiting consignment.