PRINCE’S TELLING APPEAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 548, 28 December 1928, Page 9

PRINCE’S TELLING APPEAL

A HUGE POST-BAG £35,000 FOR POOR MINERS (Australian and -V.X. Press Association) Reed. 9.25 a.m. LONDON, Thursday. The Prince of Wales’s post bag at York House was one of the biggest on record to-day, as a result of the broadcast appeal on behalf of the distressed miners. Letters came from all classes. Many describe how immediately the Prince had spoken the hat was handed round and a modest 10s and upwards was sent to the Mansion House, where over 1,000 contributions were received by the first post. The Prince spent a good deal of Christmas Day composing the appeal, which was only finished just before he went to the micr phone. The fund is now about £350,000, apart from the Government’s contributions. SUCCESSFUL EFFORTS. A British Official Wireless message says success attended the efforts made in the distressed areas to secure that no family in need should be without reasonable fare on Christmas Day. Organisations that have been for some time engaged in remit work, and new bodies that were called into existence by a great wave of public concern, were busily engaged in distributing the vast consignment of food and clothing.