DISTRICT COMMITTEE FOR U.N. CHILDREN APPEAL TO REFORMED

Wanganui Chronicle, 17 June 1950, Page 4

DISTRICT COMMITTEE FOR U.N. CHILDREN APPEAL TO REFORMED

In an endeavour to form a district committee to organise the 1950 United Nations appeal for children, the Mayor (Hon. W. J. Rogers, M.L.C.) will convene a meeting of district representatives in the City Council Chambers next Thursday. Yesterday Mr Rogers said the district was a large one and comprised Marton, Ohakune, Patea, Raetihi, Taihape and Wanganui. "However," he said, "that need not be any deterrent to the effort to be launched at the beginning of July and which will extend to the end of August. Indeed, it will provide, as has been done so on many occasions before, an evidence that in this area town and country stand united in serving the best ends of any deserving cause.” In calling for a full attendance of representatives, Mr Rogers said with the conditions that exist in our fair and pleasant land it is hard to realise that in other parts of the world today there ar e children literally dying of hunger, exposure and privation. "Such a state of affairs presents a stern challenge and to those comfortably circumstanced, comparatively as we are, it cannot be turned lightly aside."