THE CHILDREN OF EUROPE
SIR THOMAS MACKENZIE'S VIEW. Speakinp at the civic reception ancorded him in Wellington yesterday. Sir Thomas Mackenzie said that he had bee»n asked questions regarding the fund that wn* being raised in New Zealand for the , ''starving children of Europe." His impression was that New Zealand had sent too much money away in tho form of contributions to funne. The proportion of money sent from New Zealand to Belgium durine tho war was in excess of that country s requirements. He remembered that at ono Mansion Hcuso nicotinic he had discovered that of every pound received from all sources. New Zealand had contributed 128. That was too larjre » proportion. , • His feeling regarding the children 9f Europe wan that charity oiirht to beyin at home. Thore were still a great many hunsry children in Lon'don, and before he (lid much for tho children of tho countries that had tried to rcdtico Briton? to slavery, he would see that every mouth within the Empiro wa», filled first.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 46, 18 November 1920, Page 4
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169THE CHILDREN OF EUROPE Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 46, 18 November 1920, Page 4
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