NEEDY CHILDREN
WORLD-WIPE RELIEF
GIFT FROM NEW ZEALAND P.A. WELLINGTON, Nov. 29. A donation of £250,000 to the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund was recently made by the New Zealand Government. How best this money can be spent in New Zealand on food for children and how the food can be transported to distribution centres in needy Countries is the subject of discussions in Wellington- between Mr Donald E. Watkins, the representative of the fund in Australia and New Zealand, and the Government.
On behalf of the needy children of the world, millions of whom, he. said, had never had a roof over their head or shoes on their feet, Mr Watkins in an interview to-day expressed thanks to the Government and people of New Zealand for their donation. Mr Watkins said the numbers of children the fund hoped to provide for in the first six' months of operations included: Austria, 240,000; Albania, Czechoslovakia, Finland, and Hungary, a combined total of 240,000; China, 700,000; France, 70,000; Greece, 340,000; Italy, 360,000; Poland, 700,000; and Yugoslavia, 600,000.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26632, 1 December 1947, Page 6
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176NEEDY CHILDREN Otago Daily Times, Issue 26632, 1 December 1947, Page 6
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