DR BARNARDO’S HOMES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2455, 24 January 1893, Page 3

DR BARNARDO’S HOMES.

The following letter will be of interest to those at Geraldine who helped in the concert in aid of Dr Bamardo’s Homes for Destitute Children. It will be remembered that the first money sent from Geraldine was devoted to the keeping of a baby girl named Grace Saunders, It now appears from this letter that the money since sent goes towards the support of the same child, which may now be thought of as Geraldine’s protegee. The letter, which is written in Dr Barnardo’s own handwriting, was received by the Misses Fish : “ London, 25th November, 1892. “Deab Friends, —It has filled my heart with gratitude to receive your kind letter with its generous enclosure as the outcome of the deep interest taken in my labors in the cause of child misery and destitution, by yourselves and the numerous friends of Geraldine. Please receive herewith my official receipts for the gifts respectively of Mrs , Mr my name with heartiest thanks ; also my official receipt for proceeds of entertainment given in aid of the Homes. I know what time and self-sacrifice will have laid behind this latter contribution, and I desire to assure you, your friends, and helpers, of my sincere gratitude for the very earnest and successful efforts that have resulted in the addition of so helpful a sum to the treasury of the little ones whose welfare we are seeking. It encourages me more than I can tell you to think that so strong a bond of sympathy continues to exist between the good people of Geraldine and the needy and the destitute little ones of our own over-crowded land.” The letter then gives some particulars with regard to the finances of the Homes, and shows “ how opportune and helpful is your own generous aid.” It concludes : —“ You will be glad to know that the little girl, Grace Saunders, in whom you are specially interested, continues in good health, and to get along very nicely in all respects. She is still boarded out with a respectable family in one of the best rural districts of England, and we are hopeful will grow up a good girl, in the fear of the Lord, and thus amply justify the great interest taken in her by her distant benefactors. The exact day of her birth I do not know, but she was born some time during the month of March, 1889.—Believe me, etc., T. Baenabdo.”