FUND TO BUY FIGHTERS
SUBSCRIPTIONS FROM
CANTERBURY
An additional amount of £139 6s was subscribed yesterday to the Canterbury fund for buying fighting aeroplanes for Britain. This brings Canterbury s total to date to £3224 18s sd. , There are now only 10 days left before the fund closes and Canterbury s total is still a great deal smaller than the sums raised in other provinces. The following additional subscriptions have been received by the editor of “The Press”;— £ s _ d
Already acknowledged 3085 12 o 5 o M.W. Mrs Du Feu i 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Mr and Mrs S. E. Perry 4 Mr and Mrs A. D. Harman 2 2 Mi' and Mrs Wm. G. Ives 2 The Misses Gibson 15 0 10 E. A. Adams 10 0 0 0 6 6 Eric C. Gardiner .. T.B. G. E.S.H H. 10 1 10 2 ‘ 2 10 0 0 10 10 Diamond Harbour War 0 0 Effort Committee 5 W, T. Foster W.T.L. 5 1 0 1 0 Mr and Mrs T.F.M.G. 2 2 0 “Mangle,” Little River 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 M.H.A. 5 0 Cheltonian 0 5 J. Dolph .. 2 2 H.V.B X W. S, MacGibbon 5 5 0 0 0 Geo. King L.F. 2 0 2 10 Bruce Bros. , , 3 3 0 S.M.M. , , 10 0 0 L. B. Sanders , , 5 0 0 "Riccarton” . . 1 0 0 Anonymous 1 0 0 A.V.A 0 10 0 B. Cracroft Wilson 10 0 0 M.A.M. 1 0 0 Ma jor and Mrs E. W. Webb 10 10 0 A Friend 5 0 0 Total to date .. 3224 18 5
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Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23130, 20 September 1940, Page 8
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