HOMES FOR CHILDREN
FROM BRITAIN & ALLY COUNTRIES
ENCOURAGING RESPONSE IN AUSTRALIA.
OFFERS BY GOVERNOR-GENERAL & MINISTERS.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright, (Received This Day, Noon.) CANBERRA, This Day.
The Governor-General and Lady Gowrie have offered to provide a home for two children under the war refugee scheme. Senator and Mrs Foil, who have a family of four girls, have offered to adopt two boys. Senator Foil said he was greatly encouraged by the fine response to the suggestion that child refugees from Britain and Allied countries should be given homes in Australia. Shipping interests had told him they were willing to give practical assistance in bringing children from the war zone.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 June 1940, Page 6
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