WORLD RELIEF
INTERNATIONAL FUND AT GENEVA
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, December 28.
So far twenty-seven countries have acceded to the convention creating an International Relief Union. It s object is to provide relief in money and kind, and to co-ordinate relief works, in respect of public misfortunes duo to farce© of nature, \ the exceptional gravity of which exceeds the limits of the powers or resources of the stricken people.
.This convention came into operation at Geneva yesterday. For its principal resources the Union wilt defend on don. ations, beque,st lS and public contributions, with an initial fund of 420,000 Swiss francs contributed by the State's members.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 December 1932, Page 5
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