RUSSIAN RED CROSS.
£SOOO SENT FROM NEW ZEALAND.
(P.A.) WELLINGTON. October 21. The Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser) announced to-night that the Government had decided io make a grant of £SOOO (New Zealand currency) to the Russian Cross, and that the remittance had already been sent to London for payment to the Russian authorities.
This donation, Mr Fraser explained, was a gesture by the Government and people of New Zealand in recognition of the splendid resistance offered to the common foe by our Russian allies, and to assist in relieving the suffering of their wounded and distressed.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 9, 22 October 1941, Page 6
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