JUBILEE GIFT VOTE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 166, 27 April 1935, Page 3

JUBILEE GIFT VOTE.

HELPING CANCER RESEARCH. (Special to the " Guardian.") WELLINGTON, April 25. The Acting-Prime Minister (the Hon. E. A. Ransom) has announced that in commemoration of the silver jubilee of his Majesty's accession to the throne, the New Zealand Government had proposed that a jubilee gift should be presented to his Majesty hy the Government and people of New Zealand. The King had been graciously pleased to approve of this proposal, and had signified his pleasure that all moneys collected for this gift should be devoted to the object of cancer research in New Zealand. The Minister said that the Government had appropriated the sum of £SOOO as their contribution and, with his Majesty's approval, he now invited public subscriptions for this purpose. The Government trusted that the people of New Zealand would contribute, according to their means, to this worthy object—no sum would be too small. Every subscriber would understand that he was not only contributing toward a gift in honour of his Majesty's silver jubilee, but would at the same time be assisting, in accord with ins Majesty's wish, a most deserving object. The total moneys collected would be administered by the New Zealand branch of the British Empire Cancer Campaign Society. Contributions would be received until May 31 next, and might be paid mto any Money-Order Office or forwarded direct to the treasurer of the New Zealand branch of the British Empire Cancer Campaign Society, Inc., 212, Lambton Quay, Wellington.