TO HELP THE HELPLESS

New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 461, 23 April 1948, Page 15

TO HELP THE HELPLESS

'N’*s Appeal for Children of Distressed Countries

W ZEALAND’S campaign for funds to assist the United Nations in clothing, feeding and rehabilitating the children in war-ruined parts of the world will start on Sunday, May 2, at 8.15 p.m. The opening speeches will be given (during an interval at a concert at the Dunedin Town Hall) by the Prime Minister, the Leader of the Opposition, and others, and from then on, throughout May-and possibly with an extension-the NZBS, through its main National and Commercial stations, will constantly remind, listeners of the appeal with special broadcasts of speeches and dramatized programmes. All member countries of United Nations are concerned in the general appeal! Some have already conducted their campaigns, and» New Zealand’s will take the form of a series of talks by men and women well known for their social welfare work, The Minister of Health (the Hon. Mabel Howard) will speak in the ZB women’s sessions and through the main National stations, and others to add their support will be Lady BadenPowell, the Mayoress of Wellington (Mrs. Will Appleton), Mrs. Knox Gilmer, Amy Kane, Isobella Cable and Aunt Daisy. Eyewitness Accounts In the weeks following the introductory broadcasts the speakers will include Jim McDevitt (who returned to Greece in 1945 with a CORSO team), Peter Townsend (secretary of the Chinese Industrial Co-operatives movement), W. Neil Johnson (assistant-secretary of CORSO, who came back to New Zealand last year after two years with the Friends’ Ambulance Unit), the Mayoress of Auckland (Mrs. J. A. C. Allum), Joan Rattray (a member of the Auckland City Council), Dr. Hilda Northcroft and representatives of the Auckland Hospital Auxiliary and the Auckland branch of the Plunket Society. Among the speakers for Christchurch will be the Mayoress (Mrs. Hardy Cookson), the Rev. P. O. C. Edwards (chaplain of Christ’s College, who was a

chaplain in Germany with the Occupation Forces), and Mrs. Mowbray Tripp (who recently visited England and Europe). Dunedin speakers will include the Mayoress (Mrs. D. C. Cameron), Lady Sidey, Mrs. F. G. Soper (provincial Girl Guide Commissioner), Mrs. R. W. S. Botting (President of the Dunedin Y.W.C.A.), Mrs. L. C. Morrison (President of the Dunedin centre of the Women’s Institute), the deputy-Mayoress (Mrs. L. M. Wright), and representatives of other local bodies. All the speakers will be heard from main National and Commercial stations at various times during the month, In addition, listeners will hear, from 9.0 p.m. to 9.2 p.m. every day from Monday to Saturday, the voice of a seven-year-old Wellington boy (Philip Waldron), who will introduce a_ short session bearing on the appeal. At 6.45 p.m. on the three Sundays-May 9, 16, and 23-there will be a 15 minutes’ dramatized programme from all main. National and Commercial stations emphasising different aspects of the campaign.