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AN APPEAL TO CHILDREN.

Mr. G. W. Sellar, lion, secretary at Masterton of the Belgian Refugee Food Fund, forwards us the following appeal, and we shall be glad to receive and acknowledge any donations, and forward them to the right quarter:— The Belgian Refugee Food Fund, 21 St. James' Street, S.W, To the children of Great Britain and Ireland and the Dominion of New Zealand. Dear Children,

(Will you help us? You all know, of course, the sad history of the people of Belgium; how the Germans have taken their country, and how large numbers of the Belgian families have been obliged to leave, some coming to England, others going to Holland and France. In many eases only the mother and children have left, and the father and big brothers have stayed behind to fight with their brave King and help to drive the Germans out of the land. Many of the children who have come to England are quite little ones. There are a large number of babies, dear small babies, and it is for them we are asking your help—the help of the happy children of these Islands.

A short time ago we received a letter from the master of a school at West Taieri, New Zealand, sending £1 10s which the pupils of his school had collected for the Belgians, and they especially wanted it to be spent for the 'Belgian children. We had been troubled for some time thinking of all the Belgian babies we knew in England, because in order for them to grow up strong men and women it was necessary that tliey should have plenty of milk to drink, good fresh milk, and we knew parents had no money to spend on milk. So when the money came from the New Zealand children it seemed just the tiling we wanted. Not enough of course, but we felt sure that at once the children of England, of Scotland, Wales and Ireland would like to join their cousins of New Zealand in helping the baibies of Belgium. Think what it means, you fortunate children who have your homes, your good food and so much happiness, think what it means to he driven out of your home, to be obliged to go away to a country where all are strangers', think how sad for little children—dear little babies —who ought to have comfortable homos and nice warm food, not to have enough milk, the only food they can take, i ain sure that many of you would be glad to give some of your own big eupfuls. But that is not'what we want. What we ask you to do is to give us some of your pennies, give them for the Belgian babies instead of spending them on yourselves. If you can put away one penny every week, and bring them or send them to us at the beginning of each month. Ask your friends to help us. Ask your teachers to collect in the schools and send us a nice sum to add to that which the little New I Zealanders have sent us, so that to all the little Belgian baWes, whose mothers come to us, we can give good supply of fresh milk.

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Taranaki Daily News, 2 November 1915, Page 2

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AN APPEAL TO CHILDREN. Taranaki Daily News, 2 November 1915, Page 2

AN APPEAL TO CHILDREN. Taranaki Daily News, 2 November 1915, Page 2

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