POLICE AS SANTA CLAUS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 31, 6 February 1935, Page 10

POLICE AS SANTA CLAUS

j - NO CHILD WITHOUT A GIFT.” i I German children have always adi I mired and respected policemen, but i Hamburg is the first city to dress up • I the most paternal members of the local I , force as Santa Claus and send them i into the poorest homes laden with | gifts for the very poorest of the child s , population. : I “No child without a present and no i ! child without a Christmas tree” is the j I national device which was to make f : *• Police Day” throughout Germany, I; 1 on December 18, one of the most niemi ' Grable in the long list of special efforts l| iin the Winter Help campaign. There j ! was still money needed to make Christs mas of 1934 a bigger and better festij i val for the needy than was the Christ- | I mas of 1933, and the police,’ besides colli le.-ting very large sums within their |j i own by no means well pair! ranks, were | to demonstrate with their brass bands, : | their highly trained Alsatian dogs, and i } their horses. In some cities the special effort was | I t'» take the form of free sea 4 , for a I t'hristnias fairy play, the German form 1 lof pantomime, for children who had I; .never had the dinner of ahy such plea