"EMERGENCY APPEAL"

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 3, 5 January 1939, Page 14

"EMERGENCY APPEAL"

MONEY AND CLOTHING

WANTED

(By Air Mail, from "The Post's" London

Representative.)

LONDON, December 15

The committee of the New Zealand Women's Association has issued to all New Zealanders in Great Britain an "emergency appeal," believing that they would like to do something to, help the refugee children who are arriving from the Continent. Many thousands are expected. Owing to the urgency of the situation, it has been found impossible to organise work parties for the making of clothes, so that gifts of money and suitable warm clothes for children are suggested. Any contributions should arrive by the end of January.

At the recent reception given by the New Zealand Women's Association, Mr. Fuller, a member of the Save the Children Fund, spoke, and referred with much appreciation to the liberal financial help which New Zealand had from time to time given to his organisation. The £47,000 subscribed in the Dominion after the war had enabled the organisers of the fund to begin infant welfare work in Latvia, Estonia, and Czechoslovakia.

At the present time, a former New Zealander, Mr. H. W. ,H. Sams (Christchurch) is at Prague, helping with the administration of'the Lord Mayor of London's Fund.. The Save the Children Fund makes no distinction of creed or nationality. Mrs. E. S. Harston (Wellington) is a member of the overseas committee of the fund in London.

(Sydney), O'Brien (Wanganui), Wiki Aird (Christchurch)' are staying at the Hotel Waterloo.

Mr. and Mrs. Guy Baillie, Hastings, who have been making a short visit to Wellington, have returned home.

Mrs. George Cotterill, Havelock North, is the guest of Mrs. George Gould, Fendalton, Christchurch'.

Mr., and Mrs. Eric Nelson, Mangateretere, Hawke's. Bay, will leave on Monday to connect with the Mariposa for a trip to the United States.

Guests at the Midland Hotel include Madame Stella Rubinstein (Paris), Mesdames C. L. Nedwell (Christchurch), J. F. Studholme (Masterton), T. Carroll (Auckland), Price and Renwick (Kaikohe), and Mis^s F. Cooper (Greymouth).