GIFT TO INDIA
Powdered Milk (N.Z Press Association) WELLINGTON, February 7. The Government had approved a gift of 1000 tons of milk powder for the people of India, the Prime Minister (Mr Holyoake) said tonight.
The gift will cost about £lOO.OOO and will be shipped as soon as the necessary arrangements can be made. “It will, 1 hope, go some way at least toward averting large-scale disaster,” said the Prime Minister. “1 would, however, stress that no-one can at this juncture foresee how the situation in India | will develop.” In announcing the gift, Mr , Holyoake said that because lof the worst drought of the century and the resultant ; failure of grain crops. India was facing the prospect of I the most widespread and ■probably the most disastrous famine in her history.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30979, 8 February 1966, Page 1
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131GIFT TO INDIA Press, Volume CV, Issue 30979, 8 February 1966, Page 1
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