CHANCE FOR CHILDREN

Chronicle (Levin), 2 August 1946, Page 3

CHANCE FOR CHILDREN

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ENGLISH COUPLE'S DESIRE

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AUCKLAND, Aug. 1. Au Knglish couple's dcsire to give their ciiiltlreu the opportunity oi' inaking a sueccss of their li\'es thougli it meant being separated from them by thousands of miies was revealed in a letter received by ihe Mayor, Mr. Alluiu, this morning. yigned by Mr. H. Calder, I! (hilgarth lioad, Huyton, Liverpool, the letter read: "My dear Lord Mayor, 1 am writing 10 you in the hope that you will be in a position to help 1110. I have always wanted to live in New Zealand, but 1 liave nover had the good luck or opportunity to go there. so now 1 am trving to give my two children the chance wJiich I never liad. "I iiave a girl 10 years oid and a lioy cight years oUl, and we know there is more progress in New Zealand for them. They are botli clever, as you can see by their school records, and" 1 feel sure tliat if they were given the chance 1 have aiways wished for they will be very much happier. fIf it is anyway possible for you to huve my cliildren in New Zealand my wife and 1 would let them be adopted. L have saved £1U0 for thein and 1 would j seud £1 10s a week for their maintenj ance, and if timcs and wages should get | better here l promise 1 would send rnore. | "You see. sir," added YLr. Calder, I ' ' we love our children very much and waut .to give them a good start and future, and we don 't know of any better country tlian New Zealand for giyiug a cliiltl those things." He coneluded: "lf you can help my wife and ino we will be the happiest persons in the world." Report sheets of the Knowsley Longview Junior >School enclosed with the letter support ed Mr. Calder 's remark about the eleverness of the children. The girl, -Joan, was stated by the liead toacher to be a very helpful and popular member of her class. She I sliowed promise in dramatics and sing- , ing and her eompositions were "a joy j to read." If she settled down properly j next year she should do well, said the i report. fihe was teutb in a class of 52. | The boy, Jolin, had come second in a ■class of 49, and had received 157 marks in all subjects out of a possible totai of ! 160. ".Tolin 's work is outstandinglv good," eommented his teacher. "He is j able to write a good composiUon be- ] ea use of his good vocabularv. He never j has any trouble with arithmetic. All his work is well done and of a very high standard."