BRITISH CHILDREN
SUGGESTED OFFER OF HOMES IN NEW ZEALAND STATEMENT BY PREMIER. NEED OF ORGANISED BASIS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. . “We are in communication with the High Commissioner about this matter, and today a cable was received asking for further information as to what can be done in this country, and further details will arrive by air mail,” said the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, in the House of Representatives yesterday, when further petitions were presented urging the Government to advise the British authorities that New Zealand would accept 25,000 children from Britain.
“Then we can see what hospitality can be extended on an organised scale and not in any burst of enthusiasm that might wane as fast as it arose,” the Prime Minister added. “A proper organised basis is required.” The petitions were presented by MiFrost (Government, New Plymouth) on behalf of the Mayor of New Plymouth, Mr E. R. C. Gilmour, and 114 others, and by Mr Jull (Opposition, Waipawa), on behalf of the Mayor of Waipawa, Mr F. Eagle, and 29 others. Both districts promised to take their proportionate number of children brought to New Zealand.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 June 1940, Page 4
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