TO AID THE CRIPPLED

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 1, 22 August 1944, Page 4

TO AID THE CRIPPLED

'LAST Friday's street collection in the interests of the New Zealand Crippled Children's Society realised the sum of £31 21s. The sum is an exemplification of public sympathy and interest in a cause which in the past has not been addressed to the residents of this locality to any great ex-" tent. The local Red Cross Committee which sponsored the collection after having taken over the responsibility of the Crippled Children's interests in Whakatane desire to sincerely thank the contributing public and also those ladies who so generously assisted by way of collecting and can-

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Such is Fame W T inston Churchill hailed a taxi to take him to the BBC wlie,re he w'ajs due to give one of Iris world; broadcasts. Said the taxi driver: "Sorry, mister, I can't take you all the way. I've got to get home in time to hear this bloke Churchill on the wireless." The gratified Prime Minister thereupon presented the driver with a £1 note, who contemplated it a moment and then remarked: "Hop in Guvnor! To hel* with Churchill!"

Home and School "With the issue of apples, the distribution of milk, the blowing of noses, and all these other things, I sometimes think that the school is taking on itself more than it should do," commented the Director of Education, Dr. C. E. Beeby, when addressing the conference of the Dominion Federation of School Committees' Associations at Wellington. "Sometimes I think the home is giving uj) too much to the school."