GIFT TO LONDON.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXXI, 14 September 1940, Page 11

GIFT TO LONDON.

£100,000 FROM N.Z.

DISTRESS IN BOMBED AREA.

WELLINGTON, Friday.

An announcement that the Government. has sanctioned the immediate transmission of £100,000 New Zealand currency to the Lord Mayor of London's fund for the relief of distress caused by German air raids was made 'by the Governor-General, Lord Galway, as chairman of the National Patriotic Fund Board to-night. In a statement Lord Galway said it •had been decided to make the grant in recognition and admiration of the wonderful courage and fortitude of the people of London during the most difficult times through which tliey are passing. This finance would be provided by the National Patriotic Fund Board through its Dominion-wide organisation. Details of the allocation among the constituent patriotic authorities of the •board were now being arranged, but in order that New Zealand should mako

its gesture at once, the standing com - mittee of the National Patriotic Fund Board had approved of the gift. The £100,000 includes the provision of £10,000 made from the Sick, Wounded and Distress Fund by the Joint Council of the Order «.f St'-John and the Red Cross Society to-day at a

■meeting presided over by Sir James Elliott. The amount will be transmitted to the joint war organisation of th>; Red Cross and Order of S£. John in London to provide immediate assistance for the relief of distress.— (Press Assn).