OVERSEAS RELIEF GOODS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 11, 28 March 1947, Page 4

OVERSEAS RELIEF GOODS

HOW TO PACK AND FORWARD Individual persons and members of organisations which have from time to time collected or prepared goods to be sent overseas for the relief of distress are often uncertain as to what goods are most wanted and how to pack them. They will find full instructions in an attractive little “Relief Supplies Handbook” which has recently been put out by CORSO. After briefly pointing out that the responsibilities which New Zealanders have undertaken towards the relief and rehabilitation of China become more important as UNRRA clos£§ down, the Handbook describes ..the sorts of home-made or home-found goods which are most urgently needed in both China and Greece—used clothes and footwear, wool, fat, school supplies, toys, spinning wheels and looms, and—of course—food.

The handbook also instructs how to pack and prepare these goods for transport and to what depots to send them, and offer further copies, to interested people.

Public Library Article In publication of the lengthy report from the Whakatane Library Committee on the subject of instituting the Country Library Service in this town, which has now gone forward to the Borough Council for consideration, a paragraph dealing with an example of the service in a town of 3000 inhabitants has wrongly constructed the position. The corect reading (under subheading ‘Public money wasted’) should be ‘This signifies that each subscriber paying 10/- p.a. (the library subscription rate) for his borrowing privileges was given an annual subsidy of 6/8 out of public funds.’