NOTABLE FAMILY

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 69, 24 June 1942, Page 5

NOTABLE FAMILY

MR G. ALLEY'S GIFT OF LANO MEMBER HELPING IN CHINA A. correspondent writes the following to the Wellington Post «micnrnixig tlic Alley family, a member of which has done such notable work in China. Again the Alley family is in the news. Mr George Alley, of the Bay of Plenty area, has given the great gift of 2300 aqres of good land that is to be used lor training returned men to go -on the land equipped with some practical knowledge. Remembering the many failures, on the land through lack of knowledge, effter the Great War, the results of the Alley foundation will be highly satisfying to the R.S.A. (or ser** vices) . Returning my personal thanks to* Puke Alley, I remember also the Canterbury Alleys, All Black Geoff, who is held in high regard by footballers. He is now doing good work as head oT the Government Country Library Services. His sister is helping her husband Mr H. C. D. Somerset, establish the' experiment in further adult education at the Community Centre in But„the most notable and famous of the family is that other brother, Rewi Al!e3 r , who arganised that won-, derful co-operative movement which is creating a New China in the> interior behind the fighting lines: the Incjusco. Almost it might be said that Alone He Has Done It. What «. story-—what an achievement. It i» China win the