CHILD EVACUEES FROM BRITAIN
SCHEME PLACED BEFORE LOCAL BODIES
(United Press Association)
WELLINGTON, June 28. The scheme under which it is proposed to bring out child evacuees from Britain was placed before local bodies in the Wellington district at a meeting of representatives in Wellington today. The necessary arrangements for getting offers from the people to take these children were made. The Mayor of Wellington (Mr T. C. A. Hislop), who presided, particularly emphasized the full loco parentis responsibility, financial and otherwise, that these people would be undertaking. The meeting decided to avoid the term refugee and call the evacuees little Britons. “NOT A PANIC MOVEMENT” (From Our Parliamentary Reporter) WELLINGTON, June 28. Advice received in New Zealand yesterday from official sources states that it was authoritatively pointed out in London that the arrangements now being made to evacuate British children to the overseas Dominions were in no way to be regarded as a panic movement. Rather they represented the determination of the British people and the British Government to make of Great Britain an island fortress. Naturally the more offers that were received the more easily this object could be achieved.
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Southland Times, Issue 24165, 29 June 1940, Page 4
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192CHILD EVACUEES FROM BRITAIN Southland Times, Issue 24165, 29 June 1940, Page 4
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