PLANS MADE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26708, 1 March 1948, Page 7

PLANS MADE

NATIONAL CAMPAIGN SAVE THE CHILDREN APPEAL Plans were well in hand to conduct a campaign in support of the United Nations Appeal for Children throughout the country during May, and a widely-representative National Committee had been set up, to which prominent men and women in all groups of the community had lent their support. This was announced by the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, in a broadcast address last night. The organisation for the appeal was steadily taking shape on a Dominionwide basis, said the Prime Minister, and mayors and county council chairmen were being asked to form local committees. He felt sure that the response to the appeal would be spontaneous and generous, for never before had the people of New Zealand been given such an opportunity to share with the hungry their own abundant blessings and thus to make a direct contribution to the welfare of mankind and to the peace of the world. There was a deep desire, Mr Fraser went on, on the part of people of goodwill and good intentions in all lands, to save as much as possible from the wreckage of war, to bind up the wounds of those still suffering, and,above all, to save the children. ,The children, he said, were the chief sufferers, and they had to be saved. Unfortunately, the resources of the Governments on whom the prime responsibility for their hungry and raggedchildren in their lands rested, clearly were insufficient. The United Nations, 1 representing the Governments and, peoples of every peace-loving nation, had undertaken a plan to meet thecrisis which was expected to develop between now and 1950, and world-wide efforts were being made to give millions of children, Mr Fraser concluded,, the desperately-needed chance to live decent, healthy, happy lives and to' grow up useful and peace-loving citi-. zens.