Wanganui Postmen and Secondary Schools to Aid Drive for China

Wanganui Chronicle, 25 July 1947, Page 9

Wanganui Postmen and Secondary Schools to Aid Drive for China

The Wanganui C.0.R.5.0. executive is to have the assistance of all the postmen in the city and suburbs and teams from the city’s secondary schools (Collegiate, Technical College, Girls' College and Sacred Heart. Convent) in it drive on Saturday of next week (August 2) for relief of China.

Britain, like all the other victorious nations in the war, realised that victory, to be real, required that stricken peoples of the world should be brought back to their former standard of living, or that standard bettered. If they were allowed to die of starvation, face sickness, famine and disease unhindered, the seeds of another war would develop. Britain, as part ot her share in that succour of stricken people, was given Greece, Burma and China to care for.

She has called upon New Zealand and Australia to aid her in those tasks. New Zealand sent medical and nursing teams to Greece. Now the great task of China is being taken in hand, a task to improve hospitals and carry the mercy of expert medical advice and nursing into that, groat country, but for which the Japanese menace would have been far stronger than n was.

Wanganui I s being asked to find £lOOO towards a Dominion fund to carry out this work, and a short, sharp drive, carried out in conjunction with the postmen, is to be undertaken on August 2. Teams of nine in each are being provided by the secondary schools, and the committee is fortunate in having the co-operation of the “posties."