Clothes Drive This Saturday
A final reminder is given to householders regarding the Clothes Drive which is to take place this Saturday, July 20, beginning at 1 p.m. Every house will be visited «by the postmen or their assistants, consisting of Boy Scouts and postal officials; and parcels of clothing and materials which householders care to donate for the purpose of assisting in the relief of distress among refugees in Great Britain will be collected and taken, with the voluntary asistance of private motorists, to a central depot. From these depots the goods will be sorted and appropriately arranged for despatch to the High Commissioner tor New Zealand in London, who will make the most suitable distribution at the points where the articles supplied are most needed. In every part of the Dominion, branches of the Lady Galway Patriotic Guild have been working for some time preparing goods for despatch overseas, and from the central headquarters at Government House, Wellington, large consignments have already been despatched to London, From the appeal now being made a generous response from the public as a whole will be greatly appreciated by Her Excellency, who, as President of the Guild, has taken the most active and intense interest in this great humanitarian work for the relief of distress among the million and _ a-halt refugees in Great Britain.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 56, 19 July 1940, Page 17
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223Clothes Drive This Saturday New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 56, 19 July 1940, Page 17
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