NEW ZEALAND GIFTS
Praise By The Queen LONDON. February 19. The Queen, accompanied by Mrs. Jordan, wife of the High Commissioner for New Zealand, visited the headquarters of the Women's Voluntary Services and inspected 2009 cases of gifts from Lady Galway's committee. She expressed high appreciation of the work of tls-e New Zealand women and described Hie gifts as "lovely” and “splendid." NEW ZEALANDER’S GIFT LONDON, February .19. The New Zealander. Mr. Alma Baker, Ims presented Io Hie Ministry of Aircraft ITodm-lion £lO,OOO for the purehtise of two Tornado planes. lie is the tirst person Io have bought a Tornado milright. lie founded the Australian and Malayan squadrons, totalling 91 battle-planes, in Hie last war. Mr. Baker, who Wilts born in Oamaru and married a daughter of the lute Sir Frederick Wl-.-ilaker. a former Prime Minister of New Zealand, gave £20,000 about live months ago to provide four .Spitfires for the ILA.F. lie owns rubber plantations and tin mines in Malaya, and was a close friend of the late Mr. Zane Grey, the Ameri can author, whom he first brought to New Zealand on a fishing tour.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 126, 21 February 1941, Page 7
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187NEW ZEALAND GIFTS Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 126, 21 February 1941, Page 7
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