PEARSON’S FRESH AIR FUND

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19035, 12 June 1924, Page 7

PEARSON’S FRESH AIR FUND

(To the Editor.) Sir, —For many years you have been good enough to aid the Fresh Air Fund through the columns of your paper, by laying our appeal for support before your readers. The simplicity of the Fresh Air Fund remains just as it was—a plain appeal for a few coppers to enable poor children of the Mother Country to have a day’s outing. Briefly: Fifteen pence gives one child a day in the country. Thirteen pounds pays for 200 children, with the necessary adult attendants to look after them. For the small sum of £1 one child can enjoy a glorious fortnight by the sea or in the country. There are no vexatious restrictions —the only passport to a fresh air fund holiday being poverty and the need of the child. A day in the country! . . a fortnight's holiday!’ This means everything to a slum child. The time is eagerly looked forward to and long remembered. The price asked for this happiness is absurdly small. The expenses of management are borne by the promoters. During the 32 years of the existence of the Fresh Air Fund, 4,630,080 poor children have enjoyed a day’s outing and 73,322 a fortnight’s holiday. Donations and subscriptions will be thankfully received, and they should be addressed to Mr. Ernest Kessell, 17a, Henrietta Street, London, W.C.2., England.—Yours truly, ERNEST KESSELL, Hon. Secretary and Treasurer.