Where's your red nose you should wear?

Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 6, Issue 303, 8 September 1989, Page 7

Where's your red nose you should wear?

It's National Red Nose Day today! It's the last day of the August primary school holidays and noses are available through various outlets. School children were primary and secondary the first to get their school in the country hands on the honks for were mailed order forms National Red Nose Day and letters, inviting run to raise funds for them to order noses for research into cot death. their pupils. Principals at every "However not every

child would have been able to get a nose from one of those places during the holidays, and nor may they have someone to share the fun with. That is why we sent noses to schoolchildren direct. We did not want them to miss out," says Dr Shirley Tonkin, national co-ordinator of

the Cot Death Division of the National Child Health Research Foundation. "We are also planning a school nose photo competition, to be held next Monday 11 September, the first day of the new term. And there are. many more ways that schools can have fun with the

idea," she says. Nose mail orders for schools were a popular part of Australia's first National Red Nose Day last year which raised $A1.4 million towards research and support for bereaved parents there. Australia's second Red Nose Day is to coincide with New Zealand's first.

Dr Tonkin aims to raise $1 million for research in New Zealand, to combat the highest cot death rate of any developed country. Noses are available for a donation of $2 from Shell Shops,

Fisher & Paykel Home Healthcare Centres, and supermarkets in the Foodstuffs chains (including New World and Four Square stores.) Also available are badges, for $3, saying "I'm too chicken to wear a red nose."