Our Sympathy

Goes to Mrs. Ades and other members of the family of Mrs. Maud Ashby who died last month, after several years of poor health. A convinced Christian Mrs. Ashby had for years cleaned and cared for Tunstall Church before moving to Hartlip in 1948 and undertaking the same task here for a short time.

July, 1966

Began a new Advertising Year and we wish once again to express our sincere thanks to our advertisers, who continue to support our magazine. Please do your best to give them preference when shopping.

The Church of England Children's Society - Special Notice.

Do you use Shippam's Pastes, Spreads or Minced Foods? If you do, you can help this excellent Society. Just save the top of every Shippam container and give them either to Mr. Rootes or Miss E. Woodcock, who have collecting bags. Your tops will enable Shippam's "Holidays for Children" Scheme to operate.

Miss Janet Carey

More news has reached us of Miss Carey, of the Vicarage flat, teaching at the Aga Khan High School, Nairobi. Herewith extracts from two letters:

"I did manage to get into a country school recently. Apparently it was typical of all primary schools - just a series of brick boxes, roofed with corrugated iron, holes for doors and windows, concrete painted black in a strip across one wall, earth floor and a few wooden benches. Heads bob up and down, all day - those who can't afford the 40/- per fear fees attempting to get educated; pathetic really, especially when one considers the primary palaces in England, often unappreciated .... I took a bus load of the children to an experimental farm about 40 miles away. There they are growing drought resisting maize and also have cattle and sheep. The cattle are Ayrshires, crossed with a local breed of bull, to give, good milk and meat from an animal which is resistant to heat and to one or two of the local diseases .... You see evidence of Oxfam, etc., which is interesting. At the farm the land-rover was an F.A.O. one and the maize seed was subsidized by Oxfam to 5/- an acre when it apparently costs 11/-".

J.H.G.-W.G.

NEWS FLASH

Christian Aid has made an immediate gift of £5,000 for the relief of victims of the Turkisk earthquake. This is part of a larger sum likely to be sent by the World Council of Churches, all to be used for the rebuilding and repairing of homes.

Note: Christian Aid has sent us a warm letter of thanks for the cheque for £52 10s. 0d., from this parish's C.A. Week effort.