Quick Response Is Made To Urgent Corso Appeal

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5326, 12 February 1947, Page 6

Quick Response Is Made To Urgent Corso Appeal

More than 10 cases of clothing, ftod and educational material were coilected and packed by Corso in Wellington on Monday. With aboui 60 other cases, they were placed on board the Maunganui — Cyrenia as she is now — prior to her departure i'or Greoce. .All day a constam stream t>l" people iloekod to ihe olfice with pareels. suit-ear-es, and'saeks of elothing. Pate Monday night goods were still artivingv, Two army lorries were engageti all day in eollecting supplies oi' clothing" and school hooks from Wellington schouls. In the morning 10 women were working iiard to park the. goods. By the afternoon their aumber had swelled to 36, and at niglit 2(5 inon arrived to help nail up the cases. label ■them, and load them on to the Cy>cBia. "Afany of the men wore the i>adge of tiie R.S.A. Besides the goods receivtd throughout the day, more than £50 was given in cash donations. Most cf this was spent on food. Nine hundred cases of relief sup|llies have been sent overseas by Corso in the last year. This has cost £1100 in spite of a shipping rebate of approximately 10 per cent. The t'aet rhat the Cyrenia will carry the goods free, it is calculated. will save about £240 in freight charges. In the afternoon workers in Corso j rOuRts were visited by the Greek Bishop oi' Australasia, Bishop Timofheos, and by the Wellington pastor of the Greek Orthodox Clmrch, the ' Archmandrite Vosayavlu. Not .tlll last Thursday did the Corsn committ ee know tliat direct free transport to Greece world ite availabie for their relief supplies. Franticaliy

they placed appeals for clothing with the newspapers and radio stations, an'd had announcements made through sehools and churches. A sympathetic public, realising the need for specdy help, rttshed to Corso's assistance. So great was their response that pareels left at the door during the week-end had to be cleared away before Corso "employees could gain entrance to their premises when they arrived to begin work at S o'clock on Monday morning.