THEY DID THEIR BIT!

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 168, 3 June 1940, Page 2

THEY DID THEIR BIT!

CHILDREN'S WAR EFFORT HELPING SICK AND WOUNDED Two stories are going the rounds at Wellington which have given new heart to war workers. They concern two groups of. children who, after listening in to breakfast-table conversations at home, decided that the time .haici come for them to their part in the national war effort—preferably 011 behalf of the sick and wounded. Tn each case the ages ranged from live years to eight. One group petitioned one of the fathers for the use of his motor garage. Upon gaining permission they organised a concert among themselves, and, with old boxes, cushions and other improvised dress circle arrangements they raised Gs in pennies and an occasional threepenny bit. All the items they provided themselves and without adult assistance. Their example .was quickly followed by a neighbouring of children who organised a 'bring-and-fouy" day in a motor garage, and by selling a miscellaneous assortment of books, toys, comics and other articles, netted 8/6 for the Sick, Wounded and Distress Fund Appeal; Similar stories of juvenile endeavour on behalf of the sick and wound ed are pouring into the appeal headquarters, and are quoted by officials of the campaign as evidence of the wholehearted co-operation with which the appeal has been taken up by all •those who genuinely wish to hell) the sick and wounded.