GIFTS TO NATION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 152, 28 June 1940, Page 8

GIFTS TO NATION.

SUBSTANTIAL SUMS DONATED,

British pfflcial Wireless. // RUGBY, June. 27. Speaking in Lopdon, the Chancellor of .the Exchequer, Sir Kingsley Wood, recalling Mr. Churchill's iecent words that "we could not only repel the assaults of the enemy, but also achieve the purpose for which we entered the war," said he would list but three vital considerations in support of this view. "In the first place," the Chancellor said, "we do not fight alone. The soul and spirit of France will not die and we hope that Frenchmen all over the world, ,where they are free, will continue to fight on."

In the second place, Britain had an Empire in arms, and, thirdly, there was "the unquenchable spirit of our people."

As an example of this spirit, Sir Kingsley told how, quite spontaneously and without any Government appeal, the people had been sending in to the Treasury gifts of very substantial sums of money and valuable articles. No less impressive was the response that' was being made to the appeal for loans to the State free of interest.

In actual cash up to to-day no less than £3,350,000 had been received, together with promises amounting to a further f1,000,000. The National Savings Movement to date had resulted in the collection of £234,000,000.