BIG DONATION.
To Royal Institute Of International Affairs.
SIR ABE BAILEY DONOR.
(Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) LONDON, October 25.
Sir Abe Bailey has given a donation of £100,000 to the Royal Institute of International Affairs, which has a branch in Australia.' It is a non-political organisation and assists business men, journalists and politicians with information about the Empire.
Sir Abe Bailey, who made a fortune in gold in South Africa, has made generous gifts there and in Britain. In 1925 he gave £5000 for the Fairbridge Collection of 15,000 volumes dealing with South Africa, and gave it to the South African Library at Capetown. He gave £7000 for the erection of a wing to hold the books. In 1927 he gave 20 plots of land, of 500 acres each, in Rhodesia to the Empire Service League for purposes of settlement. He sent "two representative cricket teams at his own expense, one to England, and one to Australia. His wife, a daughter of Lord Rossmore, is the well-known airwoman.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 254, 26 October 1928, Page 7
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